Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee has out­lined plans to con­struct more than 3,300 sin­gle-fam­i­ly homes across Trinidad over the next 15 months, say­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s hous­ing pro­gramme will not dis­crim­i­nate based on po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­a­tion.

Speak­ing in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day night, Lee list­ed 24 hous­ing sites ear­marked for con­struc­tion, from San­ta Rosa in Ari­ma to Rio Claro and Moru­ga.

“We don’t know who is PNM when we’re giv­ing out homes. We give out homes for the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” he said.

Lee said the Gov­ern­ment ex­pect­ed to have hand­ed over the keys to about 900 homes by the end of this year, be­fore out­lin­ing its con­struc­tion plans for the com­ing 15 months.

The largest de­vel­op­ments on his list in­clude 512 homes at 16th Street and Ed­in­burgh 500, 354 at Savonet­ta Phase One in Clax­ton Bay, 334 at La Cu­bier­ta in Ari­ma, 332 at San­ta Rosa Two and 288 at Savonet­ta Phase Three.

Oth­er de­vel­op­ments in­clude 225 homes at Pineap­ple Smith in Mau­si­ca, 179 at San­ta Rosa One and 163 at Car­son Yard in Ari­ma.

Lee al­so made clear that the pro­gramme would fo­cus ex­clu­sive­ly on sin­gle-fam­i­ly homes, rather than town­hous­es.

“These are sin­gle-fam­i­ly homes. These are not town­hous­es. I want to tell you, we don’t build town­hous­es,” he said.

“The peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go want sin­gle-fam­i­ly homes.” — Ke­jan Haynes