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Mr. Charles indicated that the policy will promote wide ranging choices for Jamaicans to be able to access financing and housing solutions.
He was speaking during the opening of model homes in the Housing Agency of Jamaicaâs (HAJ) Catherine Estates Housing Development in St. Catherine on Friday (June 25).
âWe are focused, through our agencies, to ensure that we advance the vision of 70,000 housing solutions, with a great portion of those affordable, to increase access and reduce informal settlements. Our goal at the Ministry, is to tackle the chronic housing shortage by, not only putting up brick and mortar, [but] we want to build sustainable communities,â he said.