Low-in­come and min­i­mum-wage earn­ers will be giv­en pri­or­i­ty ac­cess to apart­ments at the long-de­layed Ed­in­burgh 500 Tow­ers in Ch­agua­nas, ac­cord­ing to Hous­ing Min­is­ter Adri­an Leonce.

Dur­ing a site vis­it on Wednes­day, Leonce an­nounced that each of the two tow­ers com­pris­es 70 apart­ments, with ground-floor units re­served for per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties. The de­vel­op­ment of­fers a rent-to-own mod­el, with month­ly pay­ments rang­ing from $1,000 to $1,800 for two- and three-bed­room units.

Leonce em­pha­sized that suc­cess­ful ap­pli­cants must join a legal­ly con­sti­tut­ed home­own­ers’ as­so­ci­a­tion, which will col­lect a month­ly main­te­nance fee and en­sure com­pli­ance with lease terms. He warned that ten­ants who at­tempt to sub­let their apart­ments in vi­o­la­tion of their con­tracts could face le­gal ac­tion by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC).