More than 200 small contractors and companies have been registered to assemble the 1 000 DuraVilla prefabricated houses which are scheduled to start arriving from Guyana by early next month.General Manager of the state-run National Housing Corporation (NHC) Ian Cupid Gill, who made the disclosure in an interview with Barbados TODAY, said a significant number of the mostly three-bedroom homes have already been allocated.“The process will start with 350 houses and the first set will land toward the end of January or early February. The remainder should be here between 90 to 150 days,” he said.Gill noted that apart from the DuraVilla houses, the government-owned Hope Inc. was also constructing units here.“Across the board for the amount of work that is being done by Hope Incorporated and the National Housing Corporation, I would safely say that just around 500 people have been approved. There are others who have been approved, but we are now preparing the lots and so on,” pointed out the NHC general manager.
