News Archive, December 2020

The National Housing Trust, (NHT), wishes to advise its customers that as of January 2021, applications for contributions refund will ONLY be accessible online.

As we continue to prioritise the safety of our staff and customers, we will no longer be accepting applications in-person, at any of our locations.

Customers may apply for their refunds 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.

We use this opportunity to remind customers making…

“Stop buying avocado toast if you want to buy a home”

The most controversial statement of 2017? Maybe not. Controversial enough to infuriate millennials globally...definitely. Australian developer and 35 year-old multimillionaire Tim Gurner sent tongues wagging when he quipped that millennial homeownership goals were being thwarted due to their penchant for store bought ‘pear and bread’. Persons were not having it, why?

It discredits the effort of so many millennials making sacrifices to break into the housing market while still trying to balance everyday expenses and debt repayment.

The…