Seventy-three per cent of the homes damaged from Hurricane Elsa in July of 2021 have either been fully or partially repaired.Senior Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for infrastructural projects and town planning matters Dr William Duguid delivered this update in the House of Assembly on Tuesday, as he tabled an amendment to the Catastrophe Fund Act.“Of those 1746 houses, between the Urban Development Commission, Rural Development Commission and National Housing Corporation, they have been able to do 554, and started 537. So 73 per cent of those houses have actually been either started or completed.”Duguid explained that even outside of the complete rebuilds done or being worked on, the Government had assisted 213 households with the materials necessary for home owners to manage their own repairs in order to move the process along more speedily.
