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Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) chair­man Feeroz Khan says the Gov­ern­ment in­tends to re­ly on pri­vate sec­tor hous­ing stock as it works to­wards de­liv­er­ing homes to cit­i­zens over the next five years.

Khan made the com­ment as he spoke briefly at the open­ing of Chef Pro Homes’ new show­room, which show­cas­es low-cost, con­tain­er-mod­i­fied hous­ing de­signed to ap­peal to mid­dle- and low-in­come earn­ers.

Khan said Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had made it clear that the HDC must de­liv­er 20,000 homes with­in the Gov­ern­ment’s five-year term, but he stressed that meet­ing na­tion­al hous­ing de­mand re­quires broad­er col­lab­o­ra­tion. He not­ed that hous­ing ex­tends be­yond phys­i­cal struc­tures, de­scrib­ing a home as the foun­da­tion of fam­i­lies and the build­ing block of so­ci­ety.