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Chief Technical Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Yaneke Watson. (Photo: Contributed)
Chief Technical Director for Policy, Planning and Evaluation in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Yaneke Watson. (Photo: Contributed)

Application For Low-Cost Housing Design Competition Ends August 31

The Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation is reminding interested persons that application for the Government's Low-Cost Housing Design Competition ends on August 31, 2021. “We are looking forward to seeing the creative new ideas and designs emerging from...
Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right), and Real Estate Board (REB) Chairman, Andrew James, in discussion at a recently held press conference at the Real Estate Training Institute, to provide an update on the REB’s merger with the Commission of Strata Corporations.
Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (right), and Real Estate Board (REB) Chairman, Andrew James, in discussion at a recently held press conference at the Real Estate Training Institute, to provide an update on the REB’s merger with the Commission of Strata Corporations.

Real Estate Board Lauded For Service
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (fourth left), and stakeholders of the Delveland community in Westmoreland, look at a one-bed board house, which is to be replaced by a two-bedroom unit for a poor family of six. The visit took place on July 15.
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (fourth left), and stakeholders of the Delveland community in Westmoreland, look at a one-bed board house, which is to be replaced by a two-bedroom unit for a poor family of six. The visit took place on July 15.

Poor Family In Westmoreland To Get Housing Unit
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), displays keys for the new three-bedroom house handed over to Dawnette Henry (left), at a social housing ceremony, held on July 16, in Farm Pen, St. Mary. Sharing the moment (from second left) are: Councillor for the Carron Hall Division, Doreen Hutchinson; Member of Parliament for Western St. Mary, Hon. Robert Montague, and Mayor of Port Maria, Councillor Richard Creary.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), displays keys for the new three-bedroom house handed over to Dawnette Henry (left), at a social housing ceremony, held on July 16, in Farm Pen, St. Mary. Sharing the moment (from second left) are: Councillor for the Carron Hall Division, Doreen Hutchinson; Member of Parliament for Western St. Mary, Hon. Robert Montague, and Mayor of Port Maria, Councillor Richard Creary.

Systems and Processes of CDF Improved
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a social housing function in Farm Pen, St. Mary, on Friday (July 16).
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses a social housing function in Farm Pen, St. Mary, on Friday (July 16).

PM Says Government is Committed to Housing Vision

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, hands over the keys to a new three-bedroom house built under the Government
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PM Holness Hands Over Another Unit Under The Social Housing Programme

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Wednesday (July 14) visited the community of Quarry in St. James to hand over the keys to a new home under the Government's new Social Housing Programme. Mr. Holness presented the keys to indigent resident, Marva Mason, who along with her four children have had their living conditions improved through a new three-bedroom...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, speaks during the official unveiling ceremony for the multimillion-dollar Bustamante Hospital for Children Redevelopment Plan, on Wednesday (July 7).
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Review Of NHT Completed – Report To Be Debated In Parliament

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government has concluded a review of the National Housing Trust (NHT) aimed at determining reforms deemed “necessary” for implementation at the agency regarding its mandate. Speaking at Wednesday’s (July 7) official unveiling of a multimillion-dollar redevelopment plan for the Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston, Mr. Holness indicated that a report...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (right) cuts the ribbon to officially hand over a new three-bedroom dwelling to Byron Reid (2nd right) and his common-law wife Zelda Jacobs (3rd right) , in Albert Town, Trelawny on Friday (July 2). Sharing in the moment (from left) are Member of Parliament for Southern Trelawny, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert; Custos of Trelawny, Hugh Gentles; and Mayor of Falmouth, Councillor Colin Gager (partially hidden).
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Prime Minister Hands Over Housing Units To South Trelawny Families

Three families residing in communities in Southern Trelawny are grateful and happy today as they have been provided with stable, safe, and decent shelter under the Government’s New Social Housing Programme (NSHP). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, officially handed over the three-bedroom units in Albert Town, Ulster Spring and Battersea District on Friday July (2). The NSHP, implemented...
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Minister of Housing, Urban, Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles (centre), in conversation with Managing Director of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), Gary Howell (right), during the opening of model houses in the Catherine Estates Housing Development in St. Catherine, on Friday (June 25). Accompanying them is Councillor for the Horizon Park Division in the parish, Jennifer Hull.
Housing

Work on Draft National Housing Policy Being Advanced in 2021/22

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says work will continue on the draft National Housing Policy during 2021/22 fiscal to advance it to a White Paper. He said the draft, which was approved as a Green Paper in 2019, recognises that housing development must be carried out in an integrated manner in order...
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Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. (left), and Member of Parliament for St. Ann North Western, Krystal Lee (right), tour Mt. Edgecombe, in St. Ann, on Friday, June 18.
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Housing Minister Calls on Stakeholders in St. Ann to Help Prevent Squatting

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., is calling for greater collaboration among housing stakeholders in St. Ann, to halt the spread of squatting and informal settlements. Following a tour of several communities in St. Ann North Western on June 18, the Minister said there is an emerging “movement” surrounding informal settlements, in that...
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Government to Create Housing Revolution

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew  Holness, says the Government is going to create a housing revolution to deliver units to families across the island at reasonable costs. Speaking at the handing over of a social housing unit in Pedro, St. Catherine, on June 18, Mr. Holness said the Government is devising a project where developers are provided with lands,...
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