Habitat for Humanity meets with Housing Ministers

Na­tion­al Di­rec­tor of Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty T&T, Jen­nifer Mas­si­ah, along with a team from the or­gan­i­sa­tion, met with David Lee, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and the two Min­is­ters in the Min­istry of Hous­ing.

The meet­ing fo­cused on ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for fu­ture col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the min­istry and Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty. The or­gan­i­sa­tion ex­pressed its readi­ness to re-es­tab­lish a work­ing re­la­tion­ship with the min­istry and to con­tribute its ex­ten­sive tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise to­ward the de­vel­op­ment of sus­tain­able, af­ford­able, and dis­as­ter-re­silient hous­ing so­lu­tions.

Draw­ing from both lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al re­search and ex­pe­ri­ence, Habi­tat for Hu­man­i­ty of­fered to share in­sights and best prac­tices to sup­port na­tion­al hous­ing ini­tia­tives. Dis­cus­sions al­so em­pha­sized the need for im­pact­ful poli­cies and ini­tia­tives aimed at pro­mot­ing af­ford­able hous­ing, ur­ban re­new­al, and eq­ui­table ac­cess to shel­ter for all cit­i­zens.