The distribution of land and construction of government homes will be de-politicized and streamlined based on parish boundaries and not constituencies. This is according to Minister of Human Settlement, the. Honourable Eugene Hamilton. Speaking on the weekly radio and television programme “Working For You,” Minister Hamilton said that in the past, the distribution of government houses was made a political process while making reference to the Ministry of Constituency Empowerment created under the Labour Administration.
That department has since been renamed and transformed by the Team Unity Government as the Department of People’s Empowerment.The minister suggested that the plan is to remove the possibility for political involvement in the distribution of houses across the country. Using the administrative parish boundaries will help in this regard, Minister Hamilton said.
Meanwhile, the minister said that based on the data from the 2011 Census, the government can determine the housing needs of each area.Under the government’s housing plan to build a minimum of 300 houses, the minister explained that there is a possibility to build even more houses.
Meanwhile The SKNLP representative for Constituency #8, Dr Terrance Drew during the Labour Party’s town hall meeting at the St Peters Community Center on Wednesday night took the Team Unity Government’s housing development program under the Honorable Eugene Hamilton to task for its victimization policy when it comes to housing. Dr Drew related that housing is a basic, fundamental right of the individual.
Drew explained that the Team Unity Government had promised bigger, better and affordable housing which would be distributed along transparent and democratic guidelines.
Instead the Team Unity Government which inherited housing solutions from the Labour Administration, and which had been allocated to sugar workers had now been redistributed to Unity supporters.