Over three hundred families will benefit from Home Improvement Grant cheques in the next few weeks valued at just $4,900,000.
Recipients from all across Trinidad were randomly selected and assessed based on the criteria stipulated under the Home Improvement Programme.
This Programme, facilitated by the Housing Programme Facilitation and Implementation Unit of the Ministry, forms an integral part of the national housing mandate.
The aim is to assist as many vulnerable families, as possible, to carry out critical repairs, upgrades to their homes, and improve their living conditions.
Since its inception in fiscal 2003/2004, the programme has helped over 21000 qualifying families across the country.
In the past five years, the Ministry distributed over 2,600 grants valued at over $39 million.
In fiscal 2023, the programme’s budgetary allocation increased to $12 Million, up from $8 Million in 2022, thereby facilitating an increase in the number of families helped with the distribution from 533 to a target of 800 in fiscal 2023.