Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr David Lee says that for too long, hous­ing de­liv­ery in T&T has fall­en far short of na­tion­al needs, as more than 100,000 ap­pli­cants re­main on the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) data­base, yet on­ly 4,000 homes were built in the past decade. He says it is a gap that could on­ly be de­scribed as a fail­ure of de­liv­ery.

He made the com­ments at an awards ban­quet held by the T&T Con­trac­tors’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTCA) on Sat­ur­day evening.

Lee gave the as­sur­ance that the Gov­ern­ment is mov­ing de­ci­sive­ly to change that re­al­i­ty, set­ting a tar­get of 20,000 af­ford­able, sus­tain­able homes with­in the next four to five years, backed by a clear work pro­gramme and mod­ern con­struc­tion meth­ods.