Housing Ministry working to allocate lands to over 48,000 applicants in Reg. 4

The Ministry of Housing and Water is working to clear a backlog of house lot applications in Region Four, which exceeds 48,000, according to Minister Collin Croal.

Speaking at the Ministry’s ‘Dream Realised Housing Drive’ in Linden on Friday, the Minister assured that the government is committed to providing housing for all administrative regions in Guyana.

“If you have 40-something thousand [applications], obviously to find the land for all of those persons will take time, but we’re committed for all the regions,” he noted.

In the past four years, the Minister said over 28,000 residents received their house lots and homes from the government in Region Four.

Countrywide, he said the Ministry of Housing allocated 50,295 house lots, while the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) allocated an additional 2,458 lots.

“That is over 52,700 plus to date government-wide,” the Minister emphasised.

Minister within the Ministry of Housing and Water, Susan Rodrigues, noted that of the total allocations, 47% went to women only, while 54% went to young people between the ages of 21 and 35 years old.

Overall, she said that 90% went to low- to middle-income families.

“We have stayed through to the objectives of the housing programme of empowering people,” she added.