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Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Over 100 families get keys to HDC homes in three months

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Rishard Khan
853 days ago
20221025
San Fernando East MP Faris Al-Rawi, Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Adrian Leonce, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Camille Robinson-Regis and San Fernando East MP Brian Manning pose with recipients of HDC homes during the key distribution ceremony yesterday.

San Fernando East MP Faris Al-Rawi, Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Adrian Leonce, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Camille Robinson-Regis and San Fernando East MP Brian Manning pose with recipients of HDC homes during the key distribution ceremony yesterday.

MICHAEL RAMSINGH

Some 60 ad­di­tion­al fam­i­lies will be cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas in new homes, af­ter they re­ceived keys from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) at Cy­press Hill Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing dur­ing the key dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny ti­tled “A Home for Christ­mas,” HDC chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Jay­selle Mc­Far­lane said the homes de­liv­ered yes­ter­day had tak­en the num­ber dis­trib­uted over the last three months to 165.

“We be­gan with 60 in Au­gust, an­oth­er 45 in Sep­tem­ber and with to­day’s al­lo­ca­tions, an­oth­er 60,” she said.

Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is al­so said over 100 oth­er fam­i­lies had ben­e­fit­ted from hous­ing ini­tia­tives over the same pe­ri­od.

“We have al­so de­liv­ered in the last three months, through the LSA (Land Set­tle­ment Agency), 37 starter homes, 75 cer­tifi­cates of com­fort, 60 ful­ly-de­vel­oped hous­ing lots to for­mer em­ploy­ees of state-owned Petrotrin and an ad­di­tion­al 25 ful­ly-de­vel­oped lots to oth­er qual­i­fied cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” she said.

“That, ladies and gen­tle­men, amounts to over 362 fam­i­lies that are breath­ing a lit­tle eas­i­er to­day.”

How­ev­er, Robin­son-Reg­is re­mind­ed the home­own­ers that this comes with a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty.

“Please re­mem­ber to pay your mort­gage and please re­mem­ber to pay your rent,” she said.

“Al­though the CEO said that we are try­ing to make sure every­body does their du­ty, if you don’t pay your mort­gage or you don’t pay your rent, we will move you out of the house.”

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, Adri­an Leonce, told the re­cip­i­ents they al­so had a du­ty to their new com­mu­ni­ties.

“A com­mu­ni­ty is im­por­tant with each in­di­vid­ual. A com­mu­ni­ty is made by the per­sons that re­side in it. So, you all that are re­ceiv­ing keys here have a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to mak­ing the com­mu­ni­ties, the place that you want it to be,” he said.


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