After their pleas for help went unheard, some of the families that occupied the range houses that collapsed last month at East La Penitence have resorted to building temporary shelters using the material from the ruins.
After the two houses collapsed in mid-January, the families issued appeals to the public for assistance to rebuild the places that they had called home for some 23 years. However, they say no one responded to their pleas with tangible help and many of them were forced to sleep in the yard for days.
They were visited by officials from the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA), who advised them to visit the entity’s office so they could start the process of acquiring house lots but nothing was said about rebuilding the houses in the interim.
