Minister DeSilva On Housing Progress & More
“This Government remains focused on increasing housing supply, accelerating progress, and ensuring that more Bermudians have access to safe, stable homes,” Deputy Premier and Minister of Housing and Municipalities Zane DeSilva said.
Minister DeSilva said, “Housing remains one of the most serious challenges facing Bermuda today. For many Bermudians, this is not about politics, it is about whether they can find a safe and stable place to live.
“This Government has taken a clear and deliberate approach: to increase housing supply, restore existing units, and move long-delayed developments forward, while introducing practical solutions that respond to the urgency of the situation.
“That work is not theoretical. It is being executed.
“Across the island, progress is being made. At Southside, long-delayed development is moving forward with new residential units advancing toward delivery. At Harmony Terrace, redevelopment is progressing in a high-demand area where additional housing is urgently needed. At Battery Road and Chelsea Apartments, units are being repaired and brought back into use, creating immediate opportunities for families in need of stable housing. At Middle Town, plans are advancing to further expand available housing.
“At the same time, Bermuda Housing Corporation properties across the island are being upgraded and restored, returning units to safe, liveable condition and increasing the availability of housing stock.
“These are not proposals or promises. They are active projects delivering real results for Bermudians.
“Bermuda’s housing challenges will not be solved overnight. The island faces real constraints, including limited land, high construction costs, and global pressures that continue to affect supply. Despite these realities, the need for housing is immediate and requires action.
“That is why the Government is advancing innovative solutions, including modular housing.
“Modular construction is a practical tool that allows for faster delivery while longer-term developments are progressed. It enables the Government to respond to urgent need, reduce waiting times, and ensure that more Bermudians have access to housing when they need it, not years from now, but now.
“As part of this approach, the Bermuda Housing Corporation will be appealing the Development Applications Board’s refusal of a recent application. This reflects the Government’s responsibility to consider all viable options to increase housing supply, particularly those that can deliver homes in the near term.
“The benefits of modular housing are significant and cannot be overlooked, particularly given the current demand. At the same time, all developments must be carefully assessed to ensure they are appropriate for their location and aligned with planning and environmental standards.
“Addressing Bermuda’s housing challenge requires urgency, but also responsibility. It requires innovation, but also careful planning. Above all, it requires a continued focus on delivery.
“This Government remains focused on increasing housing supply, accelerating progress, and ensuring that more Bermudians have access to safe, stable homes.
“Work will continue across the island to build, restore, and deliver housing solutions that meet both immediate and long-term needs.
“Because at its core, this is not simply a policy issue. It is about people, families, and the security that comes with having a place to call home.”
“This Government has taken a clear and deliberate approach: to increase housing supply, restore existing units, and move long-delayed developments forward, while introducing practical solutions that respond to the urgency of the situation”
Yes, like Bermudiana Beach. Over $100 million spent on low income housing.
With all of the costs involved with the modification after modification, the regular maintenance, the insurance and the huge cost of the financing over the years on a fanciful project that has been nothing but a moneypit, you might want to easily double that $100M figure that might as well have been trwn off of the cliffs into the sea.
Oh well, no matter. It was just taxpayer money. Who cares? Certainly not the PLP. The voters don’t care either. If they did they would not be voting this bunch of incompetents into office time after time.
Its always that one that finds the the biased flaws but offers no solutions of their own, bringing nothing but negativity. What solutions are you offering? remove politics from this and homelessness in Bermuda is still a major issue!! what alternative solutions are you providing? Crickets! Keep your dark cloud energy confined to the roof and 4 walls that you have over your head and let those that have enough concern to actually do something about homelessness in Bermuda put actual solutions in place.
“What solutions are you offering?”
It is impossible to offer solutions at the moment. We are somewhere between $3.5 Billion and $5 Billion in debt on our current account (the PLP Government will not disclose the amount of our current account debt) and we have no way to fund a new hospital. We also have no plan to reduce our current account debt or the billions more in unfunded pension liabilities.
As long as we are not allowed to know Bermuda’s current financial position, no realistic solution can be offered.
Thankyou. AADC must drink at the green fountain in Alaska Hall. He/she does not know what the word ‘broke’ means.
Bermuda is well and truly broke.Instead of something like $500,000 per day being available for things like senior care, education, the maintenance of Government owned buildings, Government owned housing not maintained, the parks, the roads etc. that $500,000 every day has to go to the maintenance, not the paying down, just the maintenance of the PLP created debt.
Hilarious! AADC wants solutions to issues that his/her crowd created. The PLP keeps telling its gullible supporters that it has the answers to the problems. Next time, they say. Next time they will do much better. The gullible keep voting them in. Everytime by a smaller margin but keep voting them in.
How broke will Bermuda be when the electorate say ENOUGH and throw the PLP out? How long will it take to repair all that has been destroyed?
DeSilva clueless