Residents of Linden who turned up yesterday for the Ministry of Housing’s one-stop-shop house lot distribution had mixed reactions to the criteria set for persons of various income brackets and economic standing as it relates allocation and the size of land.
Hundreds of persons from across Linden and surrounding communities flooded the Linmine Constabulary Drill square, some with the full amount estimated for the payment for their land, others with enough for part payments and some were empty handed. A number of persons said that though they had applied for plots of land a number of years ago they were only informed of the one-stop-shop about a week ago. They claimed that most of them are of the low income bracket and would have needed earlier notice to allow them to put their monies together. “You see we are small people and they should have given us longer notice to get our act together, I come here for my land now but I don’t have any money here now so what are they going to do in my case,” queried a young woman, Gillian Amsterdam.
Several persons felt there should have been an across-the-board fixed price and size for each house lot so that despite a person’s economic situation each should have been given equal opportunity to
