A total of 9,970 residential house lots were allocated in the first half of 2025, with 67 per cent distributed to low- and moderate-income earners, 20 per cent to middle-income earners and 13 per cent to young professionals.
This is according to the Government of Guyana’s 2025 Mid-year Report.
Additionally, the Government distributed 2,052 land titles and transport in the first half of the year. It is anticipated that an additional 15,000 house lots will be distributed by the end of the year.
With respect to housing development, over 100 housing areas have been developed since 2020, with a total of 19 new housing developments in progress as of 2025.
Construction of homes progressed across all income categories with over 265 homes completed in the first half of the year, resulting in over 2,300 homes constructed since 2020 in areas such as Cummings Lodge, Great Diamond, Groenveldt and Lethem for low- and moderate-income earners and areas including Little Diamond, Prospect and Success for middle-income earners and young professionals.
A further 1,534 homes are under construction across these income categories, while infrastructure development works are in progress at new housing areas, including Bartica, Chateau Margot, De Kinderen, Hogstye, Kwakwani, Le Ressouvenir, Mahdia, Moleson Creek, Onderneeming and Wales.
During the review period, the Government continued housing support programmes, including the Steel and Cement Subsidy programme, under which 2,062 vouchers have been issued to the value of $515.5 million from October 2020 to mid-2025.
The Lethem Housing Support initiative was also continued, whereby 45 homes were completed in the first half of the year. The single-window system application process for building permits continues to allow citizens to submit and track their applications across each stage of approval through the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s (CHPA) website.
At half-year, a total 5,438 registered users have since accessed the platform, submitting over 1,900 applications, of which over 300 applications have been finalised for residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural and institutional uses.
