Tackling Ghana’s rent advance crisis: How startup StashUp aims to help renters pay landlords

The consequences are felt most acutely by young professionals, recent graduates, and middle-income earners who can comfortably afford a monthly rent but cannot produce one or two years of it at once. Many end up in less suitable accommodation. Others borrow from family, from savings meant for something else, or from informal lenders. The rent advance problem is one of the most consistent sources of financial stress in urban Ghana, and it has no formal institutional solution.