Government has ambitious Housing Programme for 2025

The government of St Vincent and the Grenadines is embarking on a heroic mission to build 1000 houses over the next 12 months.

This is one of the initiatives outlined by Minister of Finance, Camillo Gonsalves when he presented the 2024 Budget address in Parliament on January 13, 2024.

Gonsalves said the government’s goal this year is to “construct one thousand houses “ for persons who were displaced either by the volcanic eruptions, or by Hurricane Beryl”.

“The most urgent priority of Budget 2025 is the construction and acceleration of the massive housing repair and rebuilding programme,” he stated.

He said that since the disaster, 2500 home owners got building materials for repairs, and there is another 2500 homes with more severe damage which need to be repaired or rebuilt.

“The goal to build 1000 houses in 12 months is unprecedented in its ambition and unparallel in its scope.

” It has simply never been done before in St Vincent and the Grenadines,” the finance minister declared.

He said it is the Unity Labour Party which began the housing revolution in 2002, and the ULP is the most pro-housing administration in this country.

In his contribution to debate on the 2025 Budget on Tuesday evening, Minister of Housing, Orando Brewster said “this government is not weary of doing good and taking care of our people.”

He explained that the first shipment of prefabricated houses from Trinidad is expected to arrive here by the end of the first quarter of 2025.

On Tuesday, both Minister Brewster and Senator Ashell Morgan criticized

Opposition Leader, Dr Godwin Friday, for failing to speak on the issue of housing when he opened the Opposition’s response to the Appropriations Bill on Tuesday morning, January 14, 2024.