Christopher Burgess | Bureaucracy in housing

Successive governments have paid lip service to meeting Jamaica’s housing needs. The Planning Institute of Jamaica statistics show that only in the 1970s and 1990s did Jamaica come close to meeting the demand.Bureaucracy, weak enforcement, and low housing output are keeping Jamaica’s housing stock fragile. Jamaica’s housing production system is too slow, too informal, and too fragile for the climate realities now confronting the country.

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