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Investment is up, yet the housing deficit endures. An honest look at whether the NHT’s structure, designed in the 1970s, still fits the Jamaica of today, and how it might evolve.
The NHT’s output is the strongest in its history, yet Jamaica still falls short by some 15,000 homes a year. An honest look at what the Trust is, and what it is being asked to become.
The conversation around artificial intelligence has become unavoidable. From banking to education, from medicine to marketing, AI has planted its…
If a Jamaican child is born today, by the time they seriously touch property in 2040–2045, the world they step…
A common criticism says the NHT does not build enough houses. But the law that created it framed it as a financier, not a builder. The real question is whether that founding purpose still fits.
The Government’s repeated drawdowns from the NHT raise a hard question: should money meant for housing balance the national budget? A look at both sides of a long-running tension.