The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) is seeking to ensure that persons living with disabilities have equitable access to house lots.
This was announced at an outreach held at the Guyana Society for the Blind building on High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown yesterday morning.
Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-Yearwood was present at the outreach, where she met and spoke with the persons living with disabilities.
The minister brought a team from her office to the outreach and they conducted interviews on the spot and persons were able to apply for house lots. “We are going to interview you on the spot and for those of you who have brought with you your documents, we are going to issue you on the spot with a letter saying that you applied and you’re now qualified for a house lot,” Adams-Yearwood said.
Many of the persons with disabilities who showed up to the outreach were excited about the programme and felt happy that the minister and a team had come to assist them.
Adams-Yearwood told those present that the CH&PA is primarily looking at land on the East Coast, where low income lots are available. “As we speak, we have some lots on the East Coast, particularly Mon Repos, [and] Good Hope. By the end of the year, we are going to have some at Cummings Lodge and we’re also looking in the very near future to have some at Annandale and Foulis on the East Coast,” the minister said.
She added that no house lots are available in Georgetown and they have no low income lots along the East Bank of Demerara.
