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The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) says if re­turned to of­fice, it will seek to dis­trib­ute 500 homes per week, as it called Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s pro­posed hous­ing pol­i­cy an out-of-touch fan­ta­sy.

Speak­ing in Point Fortin on Tues­day night, Prime Min­is­ter Young said if re­turned to of­fice his gov­ern­ment will de­liv­er a sub­stan­tial hous­ing pro­gramme for young peo­ple, in­volv­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion of 3,000 lots for home con­struc­tion.

The Prime Min­is­ter added that the ini­tia­tive in­volves de­vel­op­ing state lands and pro­vid­ing the nec­es­sary in­fra­struc­ture, in­clud­ing elec­tric­i­ty, wa­ter con­nec­tions, and house plans for young peo­ple. El­i­gi­bil­i­ty would be lim­it­ed to first-time own­ers, who could pur­chase the lots and build their own homes in line with these plans.