{"id":336381,"date":"2025-02-05T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=336381"},"modified":"2025-02-04T23:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:29:56","slug":"minister-poponne-skerrit-gives-update-on-housing-recovery-projects-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/minister-poponne-skerrit-gives-update-on-housing-recovery-projects-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Poponne-Skerrit gives update on progress of Housing Recovery Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_336382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336382\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-336382 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Melissa-Poponne-Skerrit-642x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Melissa Poponne-Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Melissa Poponne-Skerrit has announced that a total of 309 homes have been built under the Housing Recovery Project, amounting to an estimated value of US$40 million.<\/p>\n<p>She made the disclosure during a press conference this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under the Housing Recovery Project we plan to build 420 homes, so far out of that we have built 309 homes at an estimated value of about US$40 million,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister explained that in 2018 Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced that his government would build 5,000 homes by 2030. &#8220;And just as a way to update you as to where we are at attaining these [goals], we have surpassed the halfway mark both in target and time-frame, and so I am proud to say that we are well on our way to becoming the first climate-resilient country, of course with housing leading at the forefront,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Poponne-Skerrit, the Housing Recovery Project and all other housing initiatives have employed hundreds within the construction sector, offering people an opportunity to learn on the job, and enhance their skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were also trained in resilient building codes which they can now apply to their own contracting businesses,&#8221; she stated.<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &#8220;What we did is that we intentionally selected contractors and tradesmen within the communities where the homes were built to ensure that the monies will keep circulating within the communities and stay within the families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The HRP in Dominica is a government-led initiative designed to rebuild and enhance the resilience of the housing sector. It aims to replace destroyed houses and streamline the application process for eligible residents. The project is funded by the World Bank and targets citizens whose homes were completely destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Melissa Poponne-Skerrit has announced that a total of 309 homes have been built under the Housing Recovery Project, amounting to an estimated value of US$40 million. 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