Govt moving to address hasty resale of State-allocated houses – Croal

Minister of Housing Collin Croal has announced that the government will be moving to address the hasty resale of State-allocated houses.

Beneficiaries of ministry-allocated homes are prohibited from selling or otherwise disposing of the property within the first ten years of ownership.

However, Croal said authorities are aware of a number of newly-handed over houses being advertised for sale.

“Sometimes when you see advertisements of houses for resale and when you look at the ad…and you see it’s actually one of the houses through our housing programme, it’s doing a disserve to someone who is really in need,” the minister expressed.

“So, we are examining measures at our level to go after such persons, and I want to use this opportunity to say, that we will have no tolerance for persons who seek to resell these homes,” he affirmed.

However, Minister Croal noted that beneficiaries are free to rent out the homes.

The government has set a target of constructing 40,000 homes over the next five years.

During the last five years, the administration distributed over 50,000 house lots and constructed over 2,000 houses for various sections of the population.