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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

HDC distributes homes for South communities

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1728 days ago
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Rough­ly 40 per­sons to­day re­ceived their home own­er­ship pack­ages from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) in an abridged, vir­tu­al dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny.

On Tues­day 2 June 2020, 15 in­di­vid­u­als re­ceived their pack­ages di­rect­ly from the Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter, Ed­mund Dil­lon and MP for San Fer­nan­do East, Ran­dall Mitchell.

A news re­lease from the hous­ing min­istry re­ports that fif­teen re­cip­i­ents were al­lo­cat­ed hous­ing units at the re­fur­bished Build­ing 17 in Pleas­antville, as well as units in Har­mo­ny Hall and River­side Corinth. An ad­di­tion­al 23 in­di­vid­u­als were giv­en pre-arranged times to col­lect their pack­ages from the Port of Spain and San Fer­nan­do of­fices dur­ing the course of the day, for these three com­mu­ni­ties.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, ad­di­tion­al dis­tri­b­u­tions for these com­mu­ni­ties will con­tin­ue dur­ing this month. This is the sec­ond cer­e­mo­ny us­ing this new ap­proach; the first was held on May 19th in Point Fortin.

The HDC says these new ap­proach­es to hous­ing dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­monies have been adopt­ed in or­der to ad­here to the new health mea­sures and phys­i­cal dis­tanc­ing guide­lines of COVID-19 pro­to­cols.

Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy, Ran­dall Mitchell, cur­rent Tourism Min­is­ter, had served as Min­is­ter at the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment dur­ing pe­ri­od that projects that led to the new hous­ing com­mu­ni­ties were ini­ti­at­ed.

“I was priv­i­leged to serve at the Min­istry when these projects be­gan,” Min­is­ter Mitchell ob­served. “But more than that, the priv­i­lege is am­pli­fied, con­sid­er­ing that some of these new units were planned and con­struct­ed here in San Fer­nan­do East. There is no greater hap­pi­ness than to be part of the plan­ning, de­vel­op­ment and now the dis­tri­b­u­tion of hous­ing, as MP for San Fer­nan­do East.”

Hous­ing Min­is­ter Ed­mund not­ed that since Sep­tem­ber 2015, the HDC was able to dis­trib­ute over 3,000 homes.

“We are ex­treme­ly pleased to be able to de­liv­er on our man­date, as we be­lieve every fam­i­ly should have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to lead de­cent, re­ward­ing lives re­gard­less of their cir­cum­stances,” Min­is­ter Dil­lon said.  “I am, there­fore, ap­peal­ing to you to make the most of this op­por­tu­ni­ty by tak­ing an ac­tive role in pos­i­tive­ly shap­ing your new com­mu­ni­ties.”

Min­is­ter Dil­lon added: “New home own­ers, re­mem­ber to ho­n­our your fi­nan­cial oblig­a­tions to the HDC and the TTMF, so that you can en­sure se­cu­ri­ty of tenure and pro­vide a rev­enue stream that will as­sist the HDC to pay con­trac­tors, build even more hous­ing units to add to the na­tion­al stock, and main­tain ex­ist­ing rental prop­er­ties for the ben­e­fit of hun­dreds of fam­i­lies.”

On Wednes­day June 03, the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment and the HDC will be con­duct­ing the first of two live Mod­i­fied Ran­dom Draws, where 500 ap­pli­cants from the pub­lic hous­ing data­base will have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to be se­lect­ed for as­sess­ment in­ter­views. The sec­ond Ran­dom Draw will pro­vide an ad­di­tion­al 600 in­di­vid­u­als with an op­por­tu­ni­ty to be se­lect­ed for in­ter­views.


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