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The National Housing Trust (NHT), is set to implement a series of strategic changes to optimise loan processing and accessibility to mortgage financing for its contributors.

Improvements to our customer service delivery along with the recently announced increases in loan limits are expected to streamline the NHT’s mortgage programme, thereby enhancing the overall experience for our customers.

We have made significant progress in the modernisation of our services by harnessing technology and other innovations. Among the changes, is an upgrade to the NHT Online platform to allow customers to generate eligibility letters in a…

The National Housing Trust (NHT), wishes to provide information to the public on the nature of its relationship with Stocks and Securities Limited, SSL.

SSL has in the past formed part of a pool of brokerage institutions used by the NHT to purchase shares/stocks on the Equity Market.

The NHT therefore has a brokerage account, which reflects units purchased by SSL on behalf of the NHT in three securities listed on the Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE.

The NHT has independently verified the units held in these securities with the Jamaica Central Securities Depository (JCSD) which as at January 16, 2023, were valued at JMD…

The NHT has recently embarked on several projects to upgrade infrastructure in communities we've built across Jamaica. This newsletter offers a glimpse of the NHT’s legacy of greatness through the building and maintenance of sustainable communities across the island. We hope you take time to read the contents of this newsletter to the end, and that on its completion you will feel inspired to partner with the National Housing Trust on wherever you are in your…

The National Housing Trust, NHT wishes to advise customers that starting January 2023, the NHT will begin accepting applications for a refund of contributions made in 2015. Eligible contributors are being reminded that applications for contribution refund MUST be made online. Customers may apply for their refund  via our website; www.nht.gov.jm, and also via our mobile app, ‘NHT Online’, which is available in both the Google Play Store and the App Store (for iOS users).

In addition, the NHT will extend the cash refund…

The NHT is Delivering More and we want to keep you up to date on what we've been doing to make homeownership possible.

This year, we've broken ground for new projects, handed over units to proud new homeowners and made changes to some of our policies geared at…

It has come to our attention that some customers have been receiving phishing emails from individuals pretending to work for the National Housing Trust, NHT. These emails contain links requesting customers to login to or download applications to collect contact information for an “upcoming annual promo giveaway” and the processing of refund applications and other transactions.

The NHT wishes to advise that it is not conducting any promotional giveaway neither does the NHT collects information to facilitate refund applications. Refund applications are done via the NHT’s website and mobile app and while notifications are provided…

When Constable Owen Graham responded to a call while on duty in December 2019, he did not know his life would change forever. The vehicle in which the officer was travelling met in an accident, leaving his colleague dead and him being paralyzed from the waist down.

The incident has left the 27-year-old devastated, explaining that it has caused him to feel like a prisoner in his current abode, where his father, two sisters and spouse also reside. The house, which he explains is not retrofitted in addressing his disability needs, makes it near next to impossible to move without being lifted.

The Clarendon native said he now…