Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

Even as she again con­demned squat­ting as il­le­gal, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is yes­ter­day an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment will con­struct 500 homes for squat­ters oc­cu­py­ing both State and pri­vate lands.

Speak­ing at a key dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the San Fer­nan­do City Hall au­di­to­ri­um, Robin­son-Reg­is, who last week said Gov­ern­ment will not tol­er­ate squat­ters as she ad­dressed a sit­u­a­tion in La Hor­quet­ta where il­le­gal homes were de­mol­ished, said the ben­e­fi­cia­ries will in­clude res­i­dents un­der the Land Set­tle­ment Agency’s (LSA) Squat­ter Reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion Pro­gramme and those liv­ing on pri­vate lands who meet the LSA’s Home Vil­lage Im­prove­ment Pro­gramme cri­te­ria.