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Home Turnkey project a Guyanese dream

Jul 12, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
It is the view that the new initiative of the Housing Ministry’s 1000 Homes Turn-Key project is what Guyanese have been waiting for. I must say that with everything that sounds sweet there are some fine prints behind them.
The cost of the Buttercup Cottage is $4.9 million which is the low income category, while the cost of the land is $500,000. This needs to be paid in cash to the Ministry, and the Bank associated with the Ministry will lend the applicant a total of $4.4 million, bringing the cost of the home to $4.9 million.
I see this as a controlled environment whereby only a certain class or race of people can afford to purchase these homes. What happened to the families in those areas that are undeveloped, families that are striving hard to get out of the slums?
My grandmother always used to say you are not a citizen of a country until you own a piece of land. This is every Guyanese dream. This does not reach the needs of a single parent or families that have both parents and still can’t afford to pay rent which is at all times high.
There are parents that have children going to school and have to make the decision to hear their landlord curse and swear for the rent when they took that money to purchase text books for their children just to ensure that their children get a better education.
There are some families that are still working for a minimum wage or just over the minimum wage. Tell me how many families you can ask to produce a bank statement showing that they have $500,000 in their bank account?
Hon Mr. Irfaan Ali, I urge you to seriously consider reducing the price for the land or work out a plan with the inks that we the citizens of this great land can afford to buy a home so we can live a comfortable and peaceful life, whereby we will be able to call ourselves citizens of Guyana.
We simply can’t afford $500,000 when we have landlords breathing down our backs, electricity and water bills, foodstuff, clothing and text books to acquire.
We understand that not everyone can afford to build a mansion or a pool house at a cost of $100 million.
We would just like to kiss our Iandlords goodbye with the title of our land and home. Where is the opposition when we need them? How can such a process pass in parliament? Who is looking out for the poorer class of people?
Concerned  

 

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