LOW-INCOME HOUSING in Barbados is still beyond most low-income earners, and Government needs to review a number of programmes which have been put in place over the last decade.
In addition, Barbados should also introduce a policy directly aimed at dealing with squatting on special water zone areas, a special 2015 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report has suggested.
The report, presented last year, determined that around US$1.8 billion would be needed to end poor housing conditions in the Caribbean.
The report, authored by the IDB’s senior housing and urban development specialist Michael Donovan also dealt specifically with the housing problems facing Barbadians, and the myriad of intended solutions the state-owned National Housing Corporation (NHC) had implemented over the last three decades. (BA)
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