PNP General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell
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PNP General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell
The People's National Party (PNP) is expressing confidence that it will be able to fund its promised housing policy, despite criticism from Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Dr. Andrew Holness.
Dr. Holness has said the PNP's housing policy is unrealistic.
Among the proposals is a $1 billion young owners fund that will exclude the land value from the price of National Housing Trust (NHT) houses, and the construction of 50,000 low income houses valued at $10 million or less.
PNP General Secretary Dr. Dayton Campbell says ending the yearly drawdown of funds from the NHT to fund the budget will allow a PNP government to meet its promises.
"They ask how can we do that. We can do it because we are not taking out the $11.4 billion to put into the country's budget. We are leaving it in the NHT. You (the people) have made the sacrifice for the last 12 years, and so you won't pay for the land portion of any development that we do," asserted Dr. Campbell.
He further declared: "When the PNP turn government and Mark Golding is going out there, Mark Golding won't be putting up ribbon fi open one degeh-degeh house. We are going to open housing scheme in Brae's River, housing scheme in Balaclava, housing scheme in Siloah, housing scheme in Santa Cruz."
Dr. Campbell was speaking at the Brae's River divisional conference in St. Elizabeth on Sunday.
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