Some 200 families were allocated house lots in Stewartville and Meten-Meer-Zorg, Region Three, during an outreach at the West Demerara Secondary School today, according to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA).
The outreach, which was geared towards addressing housing matters in the region, was led by Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal and a team from the CHPA. Regional Chairman, Inshan Ayube and Vice Chairman, Omesh Satyanand were also present.
During the outreach allottees were allowed to pull their respective lot number and make an initial payment, a press release from the CHPA said.
Croal in his remarks acknowledged that the exercise is not sufficient to meet the housing demand in Region Three. However, he said that in the coming weeks, a massive allocation exercise will be held in the region under the Ministry’s flagship ‘Dream Realised’ Housing Drive.
Region Three has approximately 14,000 pending land applications, the release said. In an effort to meet this demand, the Minister said that new lands are being sought and plans for the construction of some 500 low-income homes are progressing.
In addition, approximately $3.4 billion is being expended on infrastructure development at five new housing developments in the region, namely: Cornelia Ida, Anna Catherina, Edinburgh, Meten-Meer-Zorg and Stewartville.