A modest Jamaican starter home designed to grow without waste. The concept uses a permanent service core, deep shade and a planned expansion zone to make phased building more practical.

Parts one of this discussion asked whether some of Jamaica’s church-owned land and buildings could work harder for the communities around them.…

Mark Golding is tying Jamaicas post-Melissa recovery gaps directly to land titling, arguing families cant rebuild securely without ownership of the land under their homes.

A demolition in Coopers Pen revived Jamaica’s squatting debate. But the policy framework to fix it has existed since 2006, and post-Melissa data shows informal housing was 18 times more likely to be destroyed.

A 75-year-old man faces eviction from land his family says was passed down for generations, after a court sided with a title holder whose own account of the purchase kept shifting under questioning.

At a churches’ Emancipation event, UTech planning professor Carol Archer linked Hurricane Melissa’s damage to 120,000 buildings with poor building practice and the fact that about 40 per cent of Jamaica’s land is still unregistered.

Jamaica’s post-Hurricane Melissa housing recovery is facing a major obstacle as unresolved land ownership issues continue to delay the delivery of modular…

The National Land Agency has handed certificates of title to 121 Manchester residents under the Systematic Land Registration Programme, which helps long-term occupiers secure legal ownership.

The Church of Uganda launched a titling drive across all 39 dioceses, with more than 5,000 applications approved and fees subsidised from $800 to $106 per acre, as land crimes rose 67 per cent in a year.

Jamaicas churches have lost thousands of acres to squatting and adverse possession. As the government pushes a national land titling drive, denominations are racing to secure what they have left.