Government to build 9,000 new houses

25/02/2010

According to Minister of Housing Sara Lopes, who spoke during the presentation of the project today, February 25, the government hopes the initiative will help resolve the housing deficit in the country.

Interested companies may present their projects for 2010-2014 over the next two years. According to Lopes, the first houses will be built in the first half of 2010 on the islands with the most urgent housing deficits, such as Boa Vista, Sal, Santiago and São Vicente. The program will be gradually expanded to other islands.

“Our first objective is to deal with the deficit where it is most severe, in the cases of Praia and São Vicente, and then resolve the problems in other areas in accordance with the gravity of the deficit in each municipality. We intend to create better conditions for the insertion of houses within the urban fabric,” said the cabinet minister, adding that the government’s strategy is to “include people in a social context that is already structured and give them access to collective structures in order to put an end to policies that dictate that society’s most vulnerable populations are relegated to peripheral areas.”