MONROVIA – GELPAZ-Liberia, an affordable home developer and the National Housing Authority (NHA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop affordable housing for low income earners.
According to Hon. Isaac Roberts, Jr, Deputy Managing Director for Technical Services at the NHA, the project will involve at least 500 units to start with, spreading in two communities of Memeh Town, near Ricks Institute and VOA in Brewerville, Montserrado County respectively. Two other areas to be targeted are along the Robertsfield Highway – Sarpawein or Tower Hill and the Schefillin Town.
Hon. Roberts said in an NHA press release, signed by Public Relations Manager T. Maxwell Davis that the NHA has acquired an additional 12.5 acres of land to add up to the already owned 12.5 acres of land in the VOA area.
The NHA, he said is developing the first 12.5 acres of land where it is to resettle about 64 family members of the West Point sea erosion victims in their temporary settlement in VOA, Brewerville.
He said the 200 acres of land are under what he described as ‘investigative survey’ where over 50 residents of nearby Memeh Town have volunteered to brush the land because of their eagerness to see development in their community.
“That project will be a sub-division and will be a Development of approximately 300 to 400 housing units in four categories and we are excited about the volunteering spirit of our people of Memeh Town; working and clearing the land where the project will be done.”
Hon. Roberts said the four categories will include luxurious, economy, social and pro-poor housing units. “With these categories of housing units, it will provide room for Liberians in their various financial positions to go for what their financial positions can lead them to acquire,” Hon. Roberts said.
He said GELPAZ Liberia is a subsidiary of GELPAZ – Burkina Faso and after completing their preliminary visit to Liberia returned home Oct. 3, 2018 and to return with construction equipment to begin the construction of the needed but affordable housing units in the country.
Hon. Roberts added that the lands that they have acquired are closed to the beach and will have designs like a beachfront and they will be two bathrooms and three bathrooms.
He revealed that there are other opportunities involving the developing of affordable homes that will benefit Liberians of all sectors—for the luxurious, economy, social and the pro-poor.
Hon. Roberts was a businessman and housing developing contractor for more than ten years before joining the government to use his expertise in the housing development sector to benefit the country.
Meanwhile, the release said Hon. Tugbeh C. Tugbeh, NHA Deputy Managing Director for Administration said a tripartite arrangement with the LBDI, NHA and GELPAZ – Liberia that has to do with the mortgage arrangement is currently being reviewed by the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI) the release concluded.