Jamaica housing crisis

Jamaica is often described as a Christian country. The description is not difficult to understand. Church buildings appear in almost…

As churches receive public money for restoration and campaign against landlessness, Jamaica must ask whether religious property could also help address the country’s deepening housing crisis.

Jamaica is having the wrong conversation if it thinks the birth-rate debate is mainly about telling people to “have more…

Kingston, Jamaica – Jamaica is facing an escalating housing crisis, with demand for affordable homes far outstripping supply. Nowhere is this…

An Auditor General’s report into the Housing Agency of Jamaica has exposed severe project management failures that delayed affordable housing by up to 856 days, drove cost overruns of $682 million across two major developments, and contributed to cum

Kingston land prices surged 400% while wages barely doubled. NHT income ceilings locked out the poorest Jamaicans. Private developers built…