“The scheme of remaking the HDC (Housing Development Corporation) is another slipshod move by the Government to appear to be active and to mask its ineptitude in the provision of public housing.”
That’s according to Opposition MP, Dr Roodal Moonilal, following the announcement by government of plans to restructure the HDC.
Moonilal, in a statement on Friday said, “Over the past seven years, the Government failed to deliver to a country with a crippling housing shortage. All the Public-Private Partnerships programmes started have crashed, and the Rowley regime did not introduce a single new or innovation measure of its own to ramp up home construction.”
According to the Oropouche East MP, “The scheme of remaking the HDC is another slipshod move by the Government to appear to be active and to mask its ineptitude in the provision of public housing. This ‘breaking up of state enterprises’ model is doomed to failure and will lead to further unemployment and poverty. This latest declaration of reorganising the public housing agency would do nothing in easing the huge backlog and improving people’s quality of life.”
Moonilal added, “Instead of continuing the PP’s good work, the PNM Government focused on litigating its contractors, using scarce public funds for costly dead-end legal suits. This Government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on court cases rather than building homes and distributing.”
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