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Twenty-eight families occupying the Bellevue Housing area will soon receive titles to their homes as a result of an expedited process under the Government Housing Program. Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Melissa Poponne-Skerrit, announced the development while speaking as a guest on the \u2018Focus on Government and Development\u2019 Program aired on DBS Radio this week. On the show, the minister acknowledged that, traditionally, the process for issuing titles has been long, drawn-out, and quite costly. However, according to her, the administration wants to afford people the security of full ownership.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwning a home is one thing. But you know, having a title in your hand, that piece of paper that says that this is mine, that really gives a true piece of mind,\u201d she said. \u201cSo,\u00a0\u00a0we’ve been working hard to streamline the process.\u00a0 As you know, we have \u00a0Ms. Esprit, who’s a state attorney, and she’s now in the Ministry of Housing.\u00a0 She has one job and that is solely to process titles and to process titles for all the homes that we have given out up until this stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued, \u201cAnd we have made quite some strides where this is concerned.\u00a0I announced recently that we will be closing up soon on about 28 titles for the people occupying the Bellevue apartments and Bellevue housing. So that will be the first subset.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poponne-Skerrit added, \u201cWe have a team in place and this team actually has been going around and visiting some people who actually living in different housing sites across Dominica [and] would have had meetings and interactions with the team from housing, \u00a0getting a sense of who lives in the home, who the title should go under, if it’s the parents, if it’s married couple, if it’s common law.”<\/p>\n
This, she believes, will aid decisive action as the government moves forward regarding the titles.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut our policy is clear, we want to give beneficiaries secure tenure, or full ownership at zero cost to them, and this is what we will be working on\u2026,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n
Poponne Skerrit explained that the first of two key policies will be brought forward at cabinet this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis will focus on the standalone homes which are built on individual lots, and the second will address those apartment-style homes or multi-unit apartments which we call the strata titles,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo yes, we are making progress and we are finally putting the right policies in place, so that our homeowners can receive their titles, starting with Bellevue, and enjoy the full ownership and have this on paper so that they can pass it on to their children, they can take this to the bank and decide if they want to take another loan or a mortgage if they want to expand on their house.\u201d<\/p>\n
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