At a parliamentary committee, MP Everald Warmington asked why the NHT gives concessional loans to churches that do not contribute to it. NHT boss Martin Miller said the help was limited to hurricane damage, mainly church roofs.

England just overhauled tenant protections. Jamaica already has one of the more interventionist rental frameworks in the Commonwealth on paper, the real question is enforcement.

A $75 million government fund for storm-damaged churches sparked a real fight over taxpayer money and religious institutions. The government’s clean-up-not-reconstruction clarification sidesteps the harder question rather than resolving it.

JPS says a 7 percent post-Hurricane Melissa rate hike was a compromise, not the full cost. Heres what changed on your bill and why.

A planning inspector approved five homes in place of St Anne’s Church in Hastings on appeal, overturning the council’s refusal and ruling the loss of the church regrettable but not against planning policy.

Jamaica promised electronic land titles by 2021. The actual contract wasn’t signed until August 2025, seven years after the original announcement, while 45 percent of the island’s land still has no title at all.

In 2025 Queensland released an opt-in Model Code, co-designed with 14 councils, to make it easier to build community housing on church and charity-owned land, a move welcomed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

A Gleaner reader pointed out that Airbnbs may already fall under Jamaica’s Rent Restriction Act, a law that predates the platform. Nobody has ever enforced it against short-term rentals.

The Trelawny Municipal Corporation says unauthorised construction is widespread and churches are among the offenders, with one church’s case already sent to the council’s attorney. The mayor warned that unsafe buildings could collapse during hurricane season.

A 2025 UC San Diego study found about 3,600 acres in San Diego County eligible for church housing under SB 4, 96 per cent of it controlled by faith groups, enough for nearly 5,000 homes if a tenth were developed.