{"id":26134,"date":"2025-02-08T20:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26134"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:17:16","slug":"government-surpasses-40000-housing-allocations-eyes-50000-target-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/government-surpasses-40000-housing-allocations-eyes-50000-target-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Surpasses 40,000 Housing Allocations, Eyes 50,000 Target in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Nakasia Logan | January 3, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government has surpassed the 40,000 mark in housing allocations, with plans to exceed its five-year target of 50,000 house lots by the end of this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&amp;PA) is actively securing new lands to facilitate this expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, stated that 2024 was the most successful year for housing allocations, contributing 27% of the total lots distributed over the past four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of allocations were concentrated in Regions Three and Four, with Region Four receiving 61% and Region Three accounting for 22%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Allocations in other regions remained in single-digit percentages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government emphasized its commitment to inclusivity, with 46% of allocations granted to women, 26% as joint applications, and 28% to male applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address the ongoing demand, the CH&amp;PA is working on acquiring additional lands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New allocations are already being prepared for the East Coast of Demerara, while Region Six saw resumed allocations in Molsen Creek after a temporary pause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is collaborating with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to acquire and survey more lands for future housing developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal indicated that new locations for housing will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nakasia Logan | January 3, 2025 The government has surpassed the 40,000 mark in housing allocations, with plans to exceed its five-year target of 50,000 house lots by the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26135,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26134\/revisions\/26135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}