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Prime Minister Andrew Holness
By Halshane Burke
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says it will take some time to assist all vulnerable people living in substandard conditions with social housing.
The Prime Minister says the government has already exceeded its target of 200 units under the social housing programme for the 2023/2024 fiscal year.
Mr. Holness stressed his commitment to counter the effects of poverty on the most vulnerable through housing.
"We estimate that there are about 6,000 Jamaicans who are in need of some social housing intervention. So it's going to take some time. But there is a programme, the programme is funded. These are not promises. These are commitments," he said.
"I'm not afraid to speak aspirationally. So it is my aspiration to end absolute poverty in Jamaica. A dimension of absolute poverty is when people do not have access to the basic standard of housing," added the Prime Minister.
He was speaking at the handing over of a $2.8 million one-bedroom house constructed under the New Social Housing Programme in Middle Quarters, St. Elizabeth, to 50-year-old Berthlyn Black.
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