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Low income housing on the cards

by Anesta Henry
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Government is moving ahead with plans to provide housing solutions in low income housing.

Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, who said Government was set to have a silent revolution in housing, also explained that Barbadians earning between BDS$2000 and $4000 per month, will also have access to affordable housing.

Mottley said in the next few months, the Government would like to announce to Barbadians that plans are being rolled out to make affordable houses, as low as BDS$90 000, available on the market.

“There is a category of persons in this country who does not earn BDS$2000 easily, or even if they do, does not earn it in a sustained way such that the bank or the credit union is going to take comfort in giving them a mortgage.

“This country must see them, always. And this Government will honour the commitment and the philosophy that inspired Sir Grantley Adams; that inspired the honourable Tom Adams; that inspired the honourable Owen Arthur and that inspires us as a generation to be able to create that revolution.”

The Prime Minister was speaking at today’s launch of the Atlantic Breeze, Planned Lifestyle Development, a HOPE Premium Project, being undertaken at Chancery Lane, Christ Church, where she also indicated that Government has pressed the Housing Credit Fund into use in order to provide housing solutions for low income earners who cannot afford anything because they are earning BDS$2000, or less.

She repeated that the Government was conscious that most of the low income housing schemes are overly densely populated, creating a need for the dilution of that density in different public housing areas across the country.

“It is to that category of person that I say to you do not believe because we have launched two [HOPE] housing projects that we have forgotten you because we have not. I look forward to next week to take a presentation from the Ministry of Housing that focuses exclusively on that low income housing, recognizing that if we want to keep the prices down, as I have suggested, to make housing affordable and accessible to each and every Barbadian according to their circumstances, then it means some out-of-box thinking which we would have to discuss and engage. We want as far as possible in that instance to keep people in existing communities because communities matter and relationships in communities matter”.

Mottley also said that the Government intends to have a public-private consultation to establish a plan to bring the many derelict houses across Barbados back into productive use, recognizing that in many instances that conflict within families has prevented the structures from being repaired.

She said the consultation will involve finding legal ways to match individual families with those who have capital and expertise to restore the houses.

“Somebody dead. Nobody don’t want to go forward and spend the money, be able to do the planning. Or somebody frightened that if they spend the money the rest of brothers and sisters ain’t gine give them back the money. Nobody ain’t want to spend the money to do the letters of administration. We know the stories well. But what it means is that it goes from good, to not so good, to really looking pop down, to derelict. And by the time it reaches derelict, it houses rodents, mosquitoes, and criminal activity. And we have as a nation to find other ways to deal with it”. (AH)

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