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Jan 21, 2016 News
With thousands of house lot applications on file, the administration has started meeting with
applicants to update them.
Newly-appointed Minister within the Ministry of Communities, with responsibility for housing, Valerie Sharpe-Patterson yesterday met with members of the public at her Brickdam office to talk about land acquisition.
According to a Government statement, Sharpe-Patterson noted to the large gathering that most of the land is not owned by the government, but by other stakeholders.
She explained that negotiations are currently ongoing with stakeholders who are not occupying their land.
“I am planning to meet with all these agencies because some of the land they have, they are not using it for anything and if we could get to issue it as house lots, then we are going to negotiate with them.”
Minister Sharpe-Patterson noted that the new policy of the housing department mandates that before the issuing of house lots, basic needs must be provided. These include water, electricity and roads so that residents enter cohesive communities. According to the Minister, this was the request of President David Granger.
“He wants us to put in roads even if they are not of the best quality in the first instance, and it is usable, we have to give it with a promise that within a year or so we will make it top quality road. He wants us to ensure it has electricity and water.”
Over 25,000 applications are still to be processed. The Minister told the gathering that measures will be put in place to address the issue in this year’s budget.
However, she urged citizens not to “lie” on their application forms, since this will cause problems in the long-run when it comes to payment, especially for those with low incomes.
It was also made known at the meeting that no new housing schemes will be developed this year due to Government wanting to develop the infrastructure in the existing ones.
Housing, over the last decade, emerged to become one of the biggest drivers of the economy as thousands of persons started construction on their homes on lands allocated by Government.
However, very few state lands remain available in Region Four where the largest number of applicants is asking to live.
A large swath of housing lands was allocated to private developers on the East Bank of Demerara but quite a few of them are behind in the infrastructural works.
There has been growing complaints recently that not much work has been done in issuing house lots recently under the new administration.
However, the Central Housing and Planning Authority has insisted that it has been working to correct a major system flaws which has made the process inefficient and had opened the way for corruption.
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