Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar came in­to of­fice promis­ing 20,000 homes in two years on the cam­paign trail and as part of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) 2025 man­i­festo.

How is the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) gear­ing up to de­liv­er homes? The Of­fice of the Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) stepped in last week to stop the HDC from de­liv­er­ing $3.4 bil­lion worth of con­tracts af­ter for­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young called for a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what he de­scribed as a “car­tel-type” abuse of pub­lic funds. Young al­leged that the state hous­ing au­thor­i­ty used se­lec­tive ten­der­ing to by­pass trans­paren­cy and di­rect con­tracts to a hand­picked group of con­trac­tors.

Al­most a year in­to her tenure, Guardian Me­dia’s In­ves­ti­ga­tion Desk vis­it­ed sev­er­al Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) sites to see how work had been pro­gress­ing for de­liv­ery.