500 house lots up for grabs as Govt takes “Dream Realised” to Lethem

Some 500 residents will benefit from house lots as the Ministry of Housing through the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) takes the “Dream Realised” housing drive to Lethem, Region Nine (Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo).
The event is slated for today in the compound of the Amerindian Hostel in Lethem.
It is anticipated that 500 lots at Track “CHPA” housing scheme in the vicinity of “Poke” Bridge, Lethem, will be given out at the distribution exercise.
According to a DPI report, Minister of Housing and Water, Collin Croal said these house lots have been assigned to low, moderate, and middle-income applicants. Residential/commercial applicants will be allocated subsequently.
Minister Croal told DPI that the distribution exercise will see a significant reduction in the backlog of the applications in Lethem which stands at 925.
The Housing Minister further explained that the exercise also forms part of CH&PA’s national housing programme which will see the Government delivering its promise of distributing 50,000 house lots – 10,000 annually within five years.
Apart from the allocation exercise, interviews and surveys will also be conducted. Residents will also have an opportunity to have one-on-one with Minister Croal and Minister within the Housing Ministry, Susan Rodrigues.

The Government has so far distributed some 9000 house lots to Guyanese. This brings the Administration closer to reaching its target of distributing 10,000 house lots during its first year in office.
In fact, the Housing Ministry has already taken its “Dream Realised” initiative to various regions across the country including Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), where an unprecedented 400 house lots were distributed.
Government has noted that it is not only committed to distributing house lots but also outfitting these new schemes with the necessary infrastructures and utilities.
Only last month at the most recent housing drive, the sixth of its kind, some 1000 persons received moderate and middle-income house lots at Grove, Great Diamond and Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
At that housing drive, Minister Croal disclosed that infrastructural works which are expected to come on stream later in the year at the Plantation Golden Grove, Little and Great Diamond areas would see Government spending close to $21.5 billion to develop housing areas on the East Bank of Demerara including the new four-lane concrete highway from Eccles to Great Diamond.
“In short, 2021 and 2022 should see us expend $28 billion [to develop housing areas along the EBD alone],” Croal had stated.