As Housing Ministry looks to low-cost homes for squatters

Valerie Patterson

The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is considering constructing low-cost houses to accommodate those squatters who will be relocated from the government’s reserves, but only those who have been there for several years, Minister in the Ministry of Communities Valerie Patterson has said. New squatters will be given notice to remove.

It was announced last week by Chief Executive Officer of CH&PA Lelon Saul that the entity has plans to develop an area in Industry on the East Coast of Demerara to relocate persons