Govt wants people who rent in PRB flats to eventually move on to home ownership - Veu

The government wants the people who rent Public Rental Board flats to eventually move on to home ownership and buy homes or land for themselves.

Public Rental Board’s Acting General Manager Patrick Veu has confirmed this to Fijivillage after we had raised questions about how much it would cost low income earners to purchase houses.

This comes after a concern was raised by a PRB tenant at the opening of the Kalabu PRB flats where the tenant had told officials present at the event that he had gone to a Housing Authority Office to lodge his application to own a house in one of their housing developments, but he could not afford the $60,000 it would have cost him.

Minister for Housing Parveen Bala had replied that they have come up with ways so that low income earners can have a chance to get a house of their own which is achieved through dropping the price from $60,000 to $15,000 to $20,000 for PRB tenants.

We have raised the question with Housing Authority on the cost reduction of the land for low income earners and are yet to receive a response.