The Ministry of Housing’s Central Housing and Planning Authority has allocated 1,000 house lots to residents of Linden in the new Wismar Housing Scheme.

The new housing development area is divided into two phases, with the second phase expected to come on stream in a few months.

Speaking during the Ministry’s Dream Realized event on Friday in Linden, Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, assured those persons still awaiting their call for land in the area that their allocation will come in the next round of allocations in the region.

“So, today after distributing our 1,000 house lots we don’t want people to panic, if they didn’t get their house lots today. We have made more land available and we will be returning because this housing programme will not end. You have a government that has promised that there will be continuity in the housing sector,” Ms. Rodrigues noted.

The Housing Ministry said Friday’s allocation brings the total allocation for Region 10 to 2,800 lots in the last four years, with an additional, 2000 lots to be opened up in the Phase Two development.

Minister Rodrigues said the Government is proud of the work it has been doing in the region to ensure that every person who applies for a house lot is given an allocation.

“But more importantly, 90% of the allocations went to low to middle income families and so we have stayed true to the objectives of the housing sector, of the housing programme of empowering people. So that is extremely important to us and we see the housing sector also as a way to stimulate the economy, through spending on public infrastructure, creation of jobs and the construction of homes,” Rodrigues noted.

Meanwhile, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, noted that infrastructure works have already commenced in the new housing areas to ensure that persons are able to access their lands as soon as possible to begin construction.

“All of this housing development, the plan is to ensure that we make your area accessible and to ensure you have a community, those work has already started. So, for your phase two, the tender process for your infrastructure work is ongoing and as early as next Tuesday, the tender will be open,” Mr. Croal told the recipients.

The Housing Minister said allottees are now able to see their land upon allocation to have an appreciation of the magnitude of work that needs to be done before the land becomes fully available.

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