The NHT will begin construction on 10,675 housing solutions in the current financial year, committing $50.3 billion as Jamaica tries to make inroads into a 150,000-unit housing deficit.

Jamaica’s tradition of incremental, room-by-room homebuilding creates a complex, informal housing culture that Hurricane Melissa exposed with devastating clarity.

The government has committed billions through the NHT’s ROOFS programme and related initiatives in response to Hurricane Melissa’s housing destruction, with thousands of claims still being processed.

Jamaica’s affordable housing gap remains stubbornly wide as private developers build for the upper market and NHT delivery struggles to match the scale of unmet demand.

With 200,000 Jamaican families lacking secure land tenure and the next hurricane season already open, experts warn the conditions that made Melissa so destructive remain largely unchanged.

Jamaica’s residential property market is not shifting to gated communities. It is simply running out of standalone homes, the Realtors Association of Jamaica says.

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