WORKERS are moving apace to complete the construction of low, middle and moderate income model houses for display and sale at the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s

(CH&PA’s) “Housing Solution 2017 and Beyond exhibition.
Billed for May 1-5, the Expo at Perseverance, East Bank Demerara is set to have on display 10 low income, five moderate and eight middle income houses by local contractors and six duplexes and two single units by the CH&PA.

The project is aimed at significantly reducing the 25,000 housing applications’ backlog within the CH&PA system.
According to reports, CH&PA will be using its existing resources from its 1000 Homes project to build its eight units. The authority will be constructing duplexes of three designs and flat houses on stilts.

“What we are actually creating here is a model village.In this model village none of the potential owners, those who will buy can modify the houses until after five years,” Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-Patterson explained during a recent visit to the site.