Close
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has pledged to expand access to housing by supporting the construction of 40,000 new homes over the next five years, if returned to office following the September 1 elections (Ministry of Housing and Water, Department of Public Information).
According to the party’s 2025 manifesto, the initiative will build on recent successes in the housing sector, which saw the allocation of more than 53,000 house lots between 2020 and 2025. The new programme is expected to prioritise vulnerable families while also catering to the growing demand from young professionals (Ministry of Housing and Water).
A central feature of the plan is the accelerated construction of core homes, along with targeted housing solutions for key groups. The manifesto outlines continued incentives for affordable housing construction, as well as specialised support for persons with disabilities to ensure equitable access to house lots and suitable housing options (Department of Public Information).
The commitment comes against the backdrop of an estimated 80,000 pending housing applications nationwide. To address this backlog, the PPP/C has indicated that significant land has already been allocated for the development of new housing schemes, covering approximately 20,000 acres (Ministry of Housing and Water).
Existing housing support measures will also continue. Since 2022, a steel and cement subsidy has provided more than $500 million in assistance to thousands of families constructing homes valued at $25 million or less. The party’s manifesto pledges to maintain and expand these forms of direct support to reduce construction costs for prospective homeowners (Department of Public Information).
Beyond home construction, the manifesto commits to continued efforts to regularise informal settlements, ensuring that residents receive legal ownership and access to improved infrastructure. Planned investments include concrete drains, street lighting, recreational facilities, and the installation of security cameras, which form part of the wider “Smart Country” initiative designed to modernise communities nationwide (Ministry of Housing and Water).
The overarching aim, as outlined in the manifesto, is to create sustainable, well-planned communities where every citizen has the opportunity to achieve homeownership. The PPP/C frames this as a cornerstone of national development, emphasising that secure housing contributes directly to improved living standards, economic stability, and long-term social progress (Department of Public Information).
If implemented, the plan would mark one of the largest housing drives in the country’s history, reflecting the scale of Guyana’s growing population and the demand for modern, inclusive communities (Ministry of Housing and Water).
The Guyana Project is an independent media platform delivering fact-checked, ground-level reporting on politics, economy, and public life in Guyana. With a focus on transparency and development, we bring unfiltered news and thoughtful analysis to help shape a more informed, forward-looking nation.
PPP/C pledges 40,000 new homes in next term
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
t is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.