By the end of 2025, there should be a new hous­ing de­vel­op­ment which will pro­vide 100 town­hous­es for Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) clients in Cau­ra, Tu­na­puna.

Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is made the com­ment dur­ing the sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the Cau­ra Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment project at Cau­ra Roy­al Road, which will cost $117 mil­lion.

“This is the sin­gle largest in­vest­ment in Cau­ra in re­cent years,” Robin­son-Reg­is said.

The min­is­ter ex­plained that once on sched­ule, the 100 town­hous­es will be con­struct­ed on 4.6 hec­tres of land over two phas­es, 72 in June 2025 and the oth­er 28 in De­cem­ber of that year.

She added that the project will al­so pro­vide em­ploy­ment for the con­stituents.

“It is an­tic­i­pat­ed that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 500 in­di­vid­u­als will be em­ployed through­out the du­ra­tion of the project and most of these in­di­vid­u­als come from the Tu­na­puna area,” she said.

The de­vel­op­ment will join five oth­er HDC com­plex­es in the area, she not­ed. These in­clude Basilon Court, Goya Lands, El Do­ra­do Heights, Mad­hoo Heights and Peas­tree.

She ex­plained that the HDC recog­nised that there are dif­fer­ent mod­els of home own­er­ship which they must ex­plore. How­ev­er, she said the Cau­ra de­vel­op­ment will be a mort­gage arrange­ment.

“We are re­turn­ing the HDC and its sub­sidiaries to its moor­ings of en­sur­ing that we build hous­ing in such a way that those who are on the HDC’s list of ap­pli­cants can in fact af­ford the hous­es,” she ex­plained.

MP Tu­na­puna Es­mond Forde, mean­while, said his con­stituents were hap­py the HDC had once again em­barked on a project in the com­mu­ni­ty, adding he re­mained will­ing and able to sup­port and as­sist in any way pos­si­ble to en­sure the suc­cess of the ven­ture.