UNOCCUPIED STATE-OWNED houses will not be used to solicit votes for the upcoming elections.
That assurance is coming from Minister of Housing and Lands Denis Kellman, who said there was no room for party politics in Government’s bid to provide Barbadians with affordable housing.
But as elections must be held by June next year and many National Housing Corporation (NHC) units are still uninhabited, some Barbadians are accusing Government of waiting to allocate the houses closer to the elections to gain party support.
Some of the houses under suspicion were built as part of Government’s Housing Every Last Person (HELP) programme, which was supposed to provide houses for low-income earners.
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