Former People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Amanza Walton-Desir, who last week launched her own political party to contest the upcoming elections believes Guyana is at the stage where every Guyanese should be able to receive a free house lot.
During a Globespan interview, the former APNU+AFC Member of Parliament (MP) argued that the country has sufficient land and resources to make this possible. “We are at the point where every Guyanese should be able to have a free house lot. We have enough country, we have enough space, we have enough vision,” she noted.
Although the People’s Progressive Party-government has been embarked on an aggressive housing drive and delivered on it’s manifesto promise to deliver 50,000 within its first term in office, Walton-Desir criticized the government-built housing units.
Notably, in addition to surpassing its promise to deliver house lots, the government has also been providing housing units, like two and three-bedroom concrete turn-key houses catering for low-to-middle income earners and young professionals.
Walton-Desir described government-built houses as substandard quality and added, “in another few years, the people who they’re supposedly giving out houses to rebuild it because it is cracked and so defective.”
Further she cited issues with the government’s execution of major infrastructure projects, claiming that roads, bridges, and hospitals are not being built to last, and that essential services including healthcare staffing are being neglected. She proferred that her party, Forward Guyana would offer the electorate better housing conditions.
