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Govt. to address backlog of housing applications countrywide – Min. Rodrigues
Kaieteur News- Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues on Friday said that plans are on track this year to address all the housing applications across the country.
The minister gave the assurance on the first day of the 2025 Budget Debate at the 92nd Sitting of the National Assembly, which is being held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.
Speaking about the housing sector and plans moving forward, the minister stated, “We plan to address all of the applications in Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and significantly reduce the pending applications for Region 4, we are already planning phase two we are already moving on to planning for 2026, and 2027 of how we will deliver another 30,000 house lots to the pending applicants, so the young people can look forward to that.”
Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues (Govt. to address backlog)
Kaieteur News reported recently that at the ministry’s end-of-year press conference, subject Minister Collin Croal announced that the ministry reached the saturation point for available lands in several regions, noting ongoing efforts are being made to acquire additional lands.
Rodrigues’ statement comes after she told the National Assembly that since the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) administration came into office, through the Housing Ministry they have since distributed some 41,000 house lots in the country.
Out of that figure, she mentioned that 18,000 are young women, while within the last four years over 20,000 young people between the ages of 21 and 35 now own their own homes or land.
Providing statistics on the housing sector, the minister related that through their housing construction drive, some 2,000 homes have already been completed across low-income brackets.
Notably, she explained, “we’ve provided over 1,600 steel and cement subsidies to families for them to start building their homes. We have built already 129 core homes where beneficiaries have only paid $100,000 and they have a core home that they can start to build their lives with. Our target is to build 298 of these.”
Through their Home Improvement Subsidies, she mentioned that they have already distributed 798 subsidies for people to improve their existing homes.
According to the minister, it is through these initiatives and programmes that the country’s construction sector increased by some 30.8 percent, while mortgages and real estate loans grow by 71.9% over the last four years.
While her remarks on the housing sector comes after she boasted of her government’s achievements in office contrary to that of the former APNU/ AFC administration, Rodrigues noted that it is a culmination of all of these programs, policies, projects in all of the sectors, that her government plans on addressing poverty, unemployment and inequality in the country.
(Govt. to address backlog of housing applications countrywide – Min. Rodrigues)
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