Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Op­po­si­tion MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is says peo­ple who met the cri­te­ria for Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) town­hous­es in Cau­ra, Tu­na­puna, and were as­sured they would get units, are now be­ing re­moved—but Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has coun­tered that the past Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment was giv­ing those units to “friends, fam­i­ly and fi­nanciers.”

Both squared off on the is­sue in the Low­er House yes­ter­day, when Robin­son-Reg­is al­so called for eq­ui­ty and for HDC home­own­ers to be treat­ed sim­i­lar­ly to Ca­roni land re­cip­i­ents, who don’t have a large “in­her­i­tance tax” on prop­er­ty sale trans­fer.