Lottery homes may be moved
Works Minister Sen. David Burch last night said the 98 winners of the Bermuda Homes for People lottery will still get their homes ? but they may not be on Marginal Wharf as planned.
Sen. Burch told ZBM News last night that he was determined to move ahead with the project, but tenants on Marginal Wharf, where the Harbourside Village was originally planned, still had leases.
He said that one possibility was the entrance of the South Side property, which had previously held homes and would already have infrastructure on it.
Private developer Bermuda Homes for People originally planned to build a combination of market price homes and low price homes on the site, with the market-value homes paying for the construction of the low-price properties. The group was declared technically insolvent in March, but in June Government went ahead with a lottery for the 98 homes priced at $199,000.
