News Archive, October 2023

The National Housing Trust, NHT, has made improvements to the Housing Microfinance Loan Programme which allows contributors to access financing from approved credit unions towards a wide range of housing related expenses.

The changes which took effect Monday September 25, 2023 include an increase to the facility's maximum loan limit and qualifying wage ceilings.

The changes were announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness during his keynote address on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at a handing over ceremony for 35-one bedroom units and 42-Serviced Lots for Phase 1 of the NHT's Windsor Hills development in Spicy Hilly,…

Forty-seven-year-old, Tricia Hylton can remember vividly the moment she broke down in tears, after her last application for a Serviced Lot at NHT’s Steelfield Housing Scheme was not successful. She was discouraged and lost hope in the process, vowing to never apply for another NHT scheme unit or lot again.

“But my Aunt Stephanie said something to me. She said, ‘don’t worry yourself, it is not your time yet. Something will come,” she reminisced. Those words were poignant and gave Tricia a renewed hope and confidence that her time would come, and it would be great.

So, when applications opened up for Windsor Hills, Trelawny…