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Promises and Performance: Housing Still Fails the Delivery Test
Dear Editor
The Mid-Year 2025 Report provides a useful glimpse into how Government programmes are performing halfway through the fiscal year. In housing, it reveals a persistent gap between policy ambition and measurable delivery. The Ministry of Housing expended G$ 58 billion by June 2025, over half its yearly allocation, yet delivered only 265 completed homes and issued 2,052 titles. Those are not the outputs of a “model housing strategy”; they are evidence of a system still struggling to turn money into roofs.
It is true that the national housing framework is presented as “phased” and multi-dimensional, combining land allocation, construction and subsidies. On paper, that appears sound. But progress must be judged by outcomes, not by PowerPoints. A policy can be well-intentioned and still fail its citizens if execution is opaque or uneven. The same report that praises inclusion also shows two-thirds of all allocations concentrated in Regions 3 and 4, while hinterland regions continue to lag behind. The data therefore undercuts the narrative of spatial balance that the administration so often repeats.
Even the touted “affordability tiers” deserve closer scrutiny. We are told a low-income family can access a home for as little as G$ 100 000, yet the State spends about G$5 million to develop each lot. Without a transparent subsidy formula, income-qualification criteria, and contractor disclosure, citizens cannot tell whether these interventions reach those most in need. Nor can Parliament evaluate value-for-money when unit costs are hidden behind headline targets.
Guyanese deserve more than annual targets and slogans. They deserve a transparent accounting of how public resources translate into real, livable communities—complete with roads, drainage, water, and security. The Mid-Year 2025 Report should prompt the Government to publish a detailed implementation matrix showing cost per unit, regional distribution, and delivery timelines. Housing is not merely a construction statistic; it is the foundation of national dignity. Until performance matches promise, the country’s housing success will remain an unfinished structure.
Yours faithfully,
Sherod A. Duncan, M.P.
APNU’s Shadow, Ministry of Housing
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Yeah the housing department is very busy about who the allocated these turn key houses to there are very silous when Guyanese citizen apply for a turn key or farm land to Guyanese people the housing department promptly denied the citizens of Guyana access to the turn key houses that were already built instead they denied people the opportunity and the staff in the department are very selous towards Guyanese citizen and they have a rude attitude towards people that are waiting for property for their family members
The system needs to be looked at in various ways so Guyana can be seen as a one people one nation with some kinda of destinations it’s a shame the way Mr Colin the Minister of housing is running this forbacle he needs to get his house in order.
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