Over 1,000 Squatters Across the Island

According to a officials, the government, through the National Housing Development Company Ltd (NHDC) and the National Empowerment Foundation, has established a housing project. "After a survey of monthly income squatters, we decide the type houses which they can benefit. They can offer either social housing or a house in the NHDC " said the officer.

False squatters

And further that the State regulates the same situation some by giving them a lease. However, he concedes, it often happens that the Ministry should carry out evictions. Reason given: "There are false squatters." Some already homeowners, "build a shack where real squatters live. When they are regularized, they hope to also get a piece of land. " Such cases have also been identified in Dubreuil. 

Asked about the demolition of some houses in Cité La Cure, March 5 , the officer said they were in a dangerous area, being at risk of flooding. Besides the fact, he said that an investigation had established that they were "unoccupied nine days before their demolition."

Apart from this, the government also evacuated the squatters living on land reserved for national projects. They are 88 on the route of Phase 2 of the Ring Road in the area of Valley Pitot and Tranquebar. The government plans to resettle in La-Tour-Koenig. Many squatters were also identified on the route of the light rail.