{"id":1884,"date":"2023-12-04T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/?page_id=1884"},"modified":"2024-09-11T07:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T07:52:37","slug":"min-housing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/min-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"MIN &#8211; Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1884\" class=\"elementor elementor-1884\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-224d62d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"224d62d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6294170 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6294170\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">HOUSING<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-576a2fa elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"576a2fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Jamaica has always&nbsp;experienced a shortage of sufficient housing for its&nbsp;citizens.&nbsp;This has led to a major problem of &nbsp;squatting on both&nbsp;government and private&nbsp;lands. Over the years many attempts have&nbsp;been made to address this problem but&nbsp;they have been met with only&nbsp;limited success. Apart from the historically unfair&nbsp;distribution of the land&nbsp;among the populace, the problem has been aggravated by&nbsp;violence&nbsp;and thuggery which has forced thousands of families to flee their&nbsp;dwellings and in many cases squat elsewhere. &nbsp;Many of these dwellings have remained empty and abandoned in a state of disrepair&nbsp;while others have been taken over and are occupied by other persons.&nbsp;There is no simple solution to the problem of housing &nbsp;shortage and&nbsp;any attempt must have a long term outlook and not the short term&nbsp;efforts that has been used so far. More townhouses and apartment&nbsp;complex must be constructed instead of single dwelling houses bearing&nbsp;in mind the layout of the community and available infrastructure. The&nbsp;rent act must be revised to make it as fair as possible to both the tenant&nbsp;and the landlord. Thousands of premises across the country are locked&nbsp;up as the owners have had very bad experiences with tenants or have&nbsp;the fear of such an experience. In the cooperate area it is quite common&nbsp;to see large houses locked up and in many cases left to rot. Effort must&nbsp;be made to &nbsp;get these houses into the rental market. Many persons feel&nbsp;that the laws favour the tenants who in some cases remain in the&nbsp;premises for months without paying rent and eventually leave it in a&nbsp;state of total disrepair. Where efforts are made in the courts to remove&nbsp;bad tenants, the court case is usually drawn out with the tenants being&nbsp;given numerous extensions to leave. At the end, the premises are frequently left in a state of disrepair and often the landlord just lock up&nbsp;the premises. There is little recourse to collect compensation as to file a&nbsp;civil suit cost a lot and can take many years to get a judgement after&nbsp;which there is the problem of collecting payment. This will no longer be&nbsp;the case as these short comings in our court system will be addressed.&nbsp;A comprehensive study will be done to determine the best way to&nbsp;provide housing across the island &nbsp;for persons of all income level.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSING Jamaica has always&nbsp;experienced a shortage of sufficient housing for its&nbsp;citizens.&nbsp;This has led to a major problem of &nbsp;squatting on both&nbsp;government and private&nbsp;lands. Over the years many attempts have&nbsp;been made to address this problem but&nbsp;they have been met with only&nbsp;limited success. Apart from the historically unfair&nbsp;distribution of the land&nbsp;among the populace, the problem has been &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/min-housing\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIN &#8211; Housing<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3452,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1884\/revisions\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}