St. Kitts and Nevis: Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew posted snippets of NHC houses which are under construction. The construction work comes under the MRI building project, initiated by the federation of the twin island.

While sharing the photographs, the prime minister wrote that a he promised to continuously share the updates of the construction projects that are taking place at the moment.

PM Drew added that this time he shared the photos of NHC houses which are under construction. He highlighted that at present there are approximately twenty houses which are under construction and most of them will get started in the next few weeks.

The Prime Minister emphasised that these houses are a major source of employment and are providing jobs to the construction workers of the St. Kitts and Nevis.

As per the sources, the National Housing Corporation (NHC) was incorporated back in 1996, after being renamed from the Central Housing Authority (CHA). NHC was created under an Act of Parliament in 1997 for the purposes of “adding and improving” the existing supply of houses, in order to enhance the usefulness of the funds of the Corporation by promoting greater efficiency in the housing sector.

From the onset, the consultations for the preparation of affordable houses included strategies to understand the challenges better. This is an opportunity for developing affordable housing and to obtain action plans on how the communities can develop these houses in the communities.

The major component of the strategy were specific recommendations on public housing resources that might be available to help the citizens in gaining these affordable houses.

Over the years, NHC has always strived and worked to achieve its Mission Statement. NHC has delivered over 5000 lots and distributed more than 2000 homes throughout the island under several different projects.

The projects considerably are named as Super Low Houses, Affordable Houses, House St. Kitts, NEMA Houses, HS-500 Houses, X-SSMC, Town Houses, Duplex, Independence Habitat 30 Housing and Unity Housing (UHS).

Earlier, the Prime Minister Drew revealed the snippets of construction site of new traffic department building at St. Johnson’s Village and before that he also unveiled the glimpses of construction site of MRI building at JNF General Hospital.