The Government is calling on Jamaican architects to submit creative, original, resilient and low-cost housing designs, through the Low Cost Housing Design Competition, which can be used as a model for the nation’s social housing programme. The competition was launched virtually on Friday (May 7) by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness. It forms part of the social housing...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, says the Government will continue to create policies and solutions, to address the issue of squatting in the country. Making his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (May 4), Minister Charles Jr said that “the perpetuation of informal settlements is one...

The Housing Agency of Jamaica Limited (HAJ) will be designing a pilot project with support from the National Land Agency (NLA) to do mass issuance of titles, of which 7,732 are in the organisation’s vault. Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change,  Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., provided details during his contribution to the 2021/22 Sectoral Debate on Tuesday...

In the last financial year, the Ministry of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change assisted 183 families with more than $60 million, in an effort to alleviate housing vulnerability in Jamaica. The Ministry, through its Social Housing Programme, seeks, as best as possible, to assist persons through the provision of grants to repair existing structures and, in special cases,...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., says the new comprehensive National Housing Policy, which will address Jamaica’s complex housing challenges, will soon be placed before Parliament The National Housing Policy was tabled in Parliament as a Green Paper in 2019. Approval of this policy will mark the adoption of the first ever comprehensive...

Minister of Housing, Urban Renewal, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr, says that the Government is constantly working to expand the options available to persons, who wish to own a home. “We continue, every day, to interrogate the system and to make sure that we can still come up with more creative offerings,” he said, noting that among...

The National Housing Trust (NHT) is to extend the cash refund granted to public-sector workers to April 2022. This was announced by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during his contribution to the 2021/22 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 18. Since 2016, some 26,300 public-sector mortgagors have been receiving their contribution refund in cash, annually....