Six low-income families in Sophia are the proud recipients of keys to their new core homes while 22 persons received subsidies during the commissioning of a new Community Centre in ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Georgetown, yesterday.
All this was made possible through a US$28 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) under the Adequate Housing and Urban Accessibility Program.
According to CH&PA Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sherwyn Greaves, the project’s main objective is to improve the standard of living of families in urban and periurban areas in Georgetown. “In addition to the many services that we offer, the CH&PA is implementing the Ade-quate Housing and Urban Accessibility [AH&UA] program. This twenty-eight million US dollar project is financed through a loan from the IDB to the Government of Guyana [and] the project aims to improve the quality of life in urban and periurban Georgetown through better access to adequate housing, basic infrastructure for low income population,” the CEO explained.
