244 Houses Handed Over Under NSHP, 900 Persons Impacted
By: , July 27, 2024
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), presents New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) beneficiary, Leta Williams, with the keys to her new two-bedroom home in Lodgie Green District in Grantham, Clarendon on Friday (July 26). Sharing the moment are Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Western, Phillip Henriques, and NSHP officials.
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right), receives a hug from New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) beneficiary, Leta Williams, during the handover of her new two-bedroom home in Lodgie Green District in Grantham, Clarendon on Friday (July 26).
Photo: Yhomo Hutchinson
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), converses with New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) beneficiary, Leta Williams, about the condition of the dilapidated structure in which she lived with her 89-year old mother. Occasion was the hand over of a new two-bedroom home to Ms. Williams in Lodgie Green District in Grantham, Clarendon on Friday (July 26).The Full Story
The Government has so far handed over 244 homes under the New Social Housing Programme (NSHP) impacting close to 900 Jamaicans.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, in making the disclosure during a NSHP presentation ceremony in Lodgie Green District in Grantham, Clarendon on Friday (July 26), said that “in total, between units handed over and those in varying stages of construction we are at about 280 units.”
“We hope that by the end of the year we will be somewhere just over 300 units handed over and in various stages of construction,” he said.
Beneficiary, Leta Williams, received the keys to a two-bedroom house built at a cost of $5.9 million.
“Leta lived in a broken-down house. You really couldn’t call it a house. It is a shack with a roof that is leaking like a sieve and a structure that is about to collapse,” Mr. Holness said.
He noted that provisions were made for the proper disposal of sewage and storage of water.
“It is not merely about putting up a concrete structure. It’s about building a structure that will last and that will add greater convenience to the people who will occupy it. The convenience couldn’t have come at a better time because during Hurricane Beryl, Leta’s house, which is just a few feet away, she had to abandon that and take up refuge here,” he pointed out.
Ms. Williams will share the home with her daughter and 89-year-old mother who was in hospital during the handover ceremony.
Her mother has a heart condition and suffers from kidney failure as well as shortness of breath.
“Thank you all. I’m very grateful. God bless you all,” Ms. Williams said.
Four houses were handed over by the Prime Minister in Clarendon on Friday.
The other beneficiaries are Lorna Samuels from Top Alston; Samuel Brown, Cow Pen District in Frankfield; and George Brown from Gloucester in Thompson Pen.
Implemented in 2018 by Prime Minister Holness, the NSHP aims to improve the housing condition of the country’s poor and disadvantaged population by providing quality, affordable and sustainable units.
Under the NSHP, all 63 Members of Parliament are allowed to submit the names of five persons in their respective constituencies for housing support.