{"id":26155,"date":"2025-02-08T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26155"},"modified":"2025-02-08T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T20:42:45","slug":"17-squatter-areas-regularized-providing-housing-opportunities-for-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/17-squatter-areas-regularized-providing-housing-opportunities-for-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Squatter Areas Regularized, Providing Housing Opportunities for Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Kimberly Giddings | January 5, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Housing and Water has successfully regularized 17 squatter areas over the past three and a half years, providing over 1,500 house lots to citizens across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This accomplishment was shared by Minister of Housing and Water, Hon. Collin Croal, during a year-end press conference held at the Arthur Chung Conference Center on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal outlined the successful regularization efforts in 2024, which included areas such as Plantation Philadelphia and Plantation Dekentra in Region 10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also shared plans for additional regularization in 2025, targeting communities in Region 2 (Paradise and Walter Hall), Region 3 (Plantation Best and Best Reserve), and Region 4 (Success and Mocha Arcadia). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister emphasized that the regularization program follows a specific criteria and made it clear that no new squatting will be regularized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Croal reiterated that the regularization process does not take into account factors such as a person&#8217;s political affiliation or appearance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is based on the government&#8217;s commitment to providing citizens with formal land ownership, ensuring those who have lived in squatter areas for years can gain access to secure housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative underscores the government&#8217;s dedication to addressing the housing needs of Guyanese citizens and continues its efforts to improve living conditions across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kimberly Giddings | January 5, 2025 The Ministry of Housing and Water has successfully regularized 17 squatter areas over the past three and a half years, providing over 1,500&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,366,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155","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=26155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26156,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions\/26156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}