At least 1,000 residents of Region Three received their house lots on Monday during a Ministry of Housing and Water ‘Dream Realised’ event. The allocations are being distributed at the Regional Housing Office in Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara.
The beneficiaries received low, moderate, middle and high-income lots at Plantation Lorenzo and Plantation Viva La Force, both situated in the newly-established Wales Housing Development. With a $10.5 billion investment in infrastructure in the Wales area, allottees can start to access their lands before the end of this year.
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This initiative targets individuals who submitted housing applications by the end of December 31, 2024.
Addressing the growing demand for housing, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal said that all other pending applications for this period will soon get their house lots.
“We will offer by end of July all other pending applicants who are December 31, 2024 applicants and prior,” Minister Croal stated.
This also follows a commitment made by President Dr Irfaan Ali last month to clear the housing application backlog in Region Three by September 2025.
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“Region Three, your pending applicants right now is about 10,000, we have allocated to date in this region, prior to today over 9, 424 house lots in Region Three,” Minister Croal said. He explained that because of the success story in housing, new applications in the recent years “have increased three-fold.”
And so, he is urging applicants to remain patient and trust the process, assuring them that their applications will be addressed.
Since 2020, over 44,500 house lots have been allocated nationwide. Of these, approximately 9,424 were allocated in Region Three across twelve new housing schemes.
“We have taken the housing programme to all ten of the regions of this country,” Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues stated.
Further adding: “Today, we can proudly announce allocations in a region where we don’t have to call people, where we can open up the allocation to everybody who has applied up to December 31, 2024.”
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Additionally, a total of 3, 926 certificates of titles and transports were processed for Region Three.
On Monday, 768 certificate of titles were also made available for residents who were allocated at Plantation Meten-Meer-Zorg Phase Two. Minister Croal assured that the titles for other areas are currently processing.
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