Tag: affordable homes

Ministry seeks public help to shape housing policy

Ministry seeks public help to shape housing policy

| 31/01/2024 | 84 Comments

(CNS): UPDATED with consultant costs. An open public consultation has begun to help shape a much-needed policy to address the chronic shortage of affordable housing and other challenges in the local property market created by the ability of overseas residents to buy property here with no restriction or annual taxes.

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NHDT plans to develop land picked for conservation

NHDT plans to develop land picked for conservation

| 10/03/2023 | 57 Comments

(CNS): The National Housing Development Trust is seeking planning permission via an application from the Lands and Survey Department for a 54-lot subdivision on Austin Conolly Drive, East End, on four parcels of crown land, part of which has been nominated to be a protected area. The nearly 20-acre site includes Sunrise Cottage, a retirement […]

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Multi-storey units planned for old GT Housing Trust site

Multi-storey units planned for old GT Housing Trust site

| 21/02/2023 | 157 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Government has earmarked land held by the National Housing Development Trust in George Town, at the end of Courts Road, for its first effort to build multi-storey social housing. So far, the homes that had been funded and built by the government-owned trust have been two- and three-bedroom single-family houses. The […]

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Housing Trust starts work on 19 West Bay homes

Housing Trust starts work on 19 West Bay homes

| 02/12/2022 | 26 Comments

(CNS): Phase 3 of the Lighthouse Gardens affordable housing development in the Boatswain Bay area of West Bay is getting underway after an official groundbreaking of the project this week. The subdivision includes nineteen housing lots and completes the 9.5-acre property, delivering a total of 55 homes at the location. National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) […]

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Cross-ministry approach planned to tackle homes crisis

Cross-ministry approach planned to tackle homes crisis

| 10/12/2021 | 136 Comments

(CNS): At least four ministries from the PACT Government will be involved in a wide number of plans and policies aimed at tackling the emerging housing crisis impacting Caymanians from all walks of life, as the real estate sector has created an unsustainable situation relating to property prices across the Cayman Islands.

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Housing trust struggles with building costs

Housing trust struggles with building costs

| 29/06/2021 | 43 Comments

(CNS): With the cost of building materials rising dramatically due to worldwide shortages fuelled by the pandemic, the battle to keep the government’s low cost homes affordable is becoming very challenging, according to officials. National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) Chairman George Powell said their approved contractors have committed to complete the current works within the […]

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Work begins on seven low cost East End homes

Work begins on seven low cost East End homes

| 04/12/2020 | 15 Comments

(CNS): The National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) has broken ground on the latest phase of its low cost homes in East End. The construction of the first seven set of affordable houses in phase three of the project is set to begin this month and another 14 houses will also get underway in the first […]

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Bodden Town low-cost home project finished

Bodden Town low-cost home project finished

| 27/12/2018 | 23 Comments

(CNS): Sixteen new affordable homes have been officially opened in Bodden Town, the fastest growing district in the Cayman Islands. Government officials marked the launch ceremony of phase 2 of the Affordable Housing Initiative, which is run by the National Housing Development Trust. Ten of the homes have already been purchased, while the other six, which cost […]

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Housing trust begins project for 16 BT homes

Housing trust begins project for 16 BT homes

| 07/02/2018 | 47 Comments

(CNS): The National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) is beginning a project in Bodden Town to build 16 affordable homes on a 10-acre site off Lake Destiny Drive, close to 20 existing affordable homes that were constructed in 2012. The homes will be made available for sale at between $110,000 and $125,000 for eligible Caymanians. Applicants must be […]

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Bodden Town Affordable Homes

Bodden Town Affordable Homes

| 08/03/2016 | 24 Comments

MM writes: More than two hundred applications were received by the National Housing & Development Trust when the Bodden Town Affordable Housing scheme began accepting applications for the anticipated completion of the two- and three-bedroom homes. That is, more than two hundred Caymanian families with the dream of homeownership that they could afford.

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Housing trust lacks policy direction

Housing trust lacks policy direction

| 30/03/2015 | 13 Comments

(CNS): The General Manager of the National Housing Development Trust, Julio Ramos, has revealed that there are no real plans or directions in place to deal with the numerous problems now facing the affordable housing initiative. From 23 families in West Bay living in condemned properties with nowhere else to go to new homes that […]

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