Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal, on Tuesday said that the recent land distribution exercise was intended to commence the reduction of the backlog of applications noting that the persons that were issued with house lots were required to have had applications in the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) database.
In December the Ministry through the CH&PA embarked on a land distribution exercise under the theme “Dream Realised Housing Drive 2020”. Last week Croal disclosed at a housing drive that the ministry had distributed a total of 3,600 house lots in regions Three, Four, and Six.
He had stated that the 3,600 figure must be measured against those in the system since there is a registered backlog of 70,000. He acknowledged that those 3,600 persons have been waiting for quite a while in the system as he stressed that they could not have allocated the lots so quickly without the support of President Irfaan Ali.
