Business View Caribbean July 2023

14 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 10, ISSUE 7 Climate-Resilient Houses Construction Still In Progress Meanwhile, Dominica’s new housing development kicks off in Grand Bay and Dubic. “The new development consists of 88 standalone units, 29 empty plots for construction, and 17 housing units for restoration. The project is expected to be completed in 2024,” Associates Times reported. “This is a major project of building new homes, as after Erika, we had to relocate the residents of Dubic,” Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelet Skerrit said in an interview. “Some of [the residents] were impacted by the hurricane, and we decided to put efforts for greater resilience by redeveloping the homes. So we have in excess of 40 homes for the residents of Dubic combination of three and two bedrooms.” This development is part of Dominica’s Housing Revolution, an ambitious project that has already provided thousands of climate- resilient houses to Dominica’s residents. Most of the housing development projects are funded by the country’s Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme, and led by MMC Development Ltd., a private developing company that has been working closely with the government since Typhoon Erika in 2015.