July 2004 — Bermuda Homes for People (BHP), a nonprofit company headed by US businessman Clifford Schorer, in conjunction with the Government and the private sector, announced the building of 200 homes of which 100 would be affordable homes at $199,000 a piece. The rest would be sold for about $600,000. Ground will be broken by January 2005 and completed by April 2006.

July 2004 — plans are submitted for 196 homes on July 9, which indicate a community centre and retail and service outlets, which is expected to cost $77.6 million.

October 2004 — Government passes the development by ministerial decree rather than planning drawing the ire of the opposition.

November 2004 — Bermuda Housing Corporation (BHC), which is vetting applications for the affordable homes for the BHP, reveals the criteria for those who want to be eligible for the lottery homes. Income for a couple must be less than $65,000 and for a family of six, no more than $85,000 a year. Applications had to be received by March 1, 2005.

November 2004 — businesses on the 16 acres of land say they will not move those they claim they were told ten months before to leave by the Bermuda Land Development Company (BLDC).

December 2004 — business owners say they are going to take legal action as they are given a final notice from their landlord the BLDC to leave by February 28.

December 2004 — an open house by BHP reveals a 198 home development at Southside.

January 2005 — Mr. Schorer resigns in mid-January and the BHP board applies for $5 million in Government funding which is revised to $3 million.

March 2005 — KPMG declares BHP "technically insolvent" with $1.2 million in liabilities outstanding.

March 2005 — BLDC is rumoured to take more than. Government promises building will start in May or June. Government steps in to offer the BLDC land to BHP, but does not help the nonprofit out financially.

May 2005 — BHP project manager Brian Rowlinson resigns.

June 2005 — BHP Project manager, John Gaston, announces that building will not start till November and that completion is expected by April, 2007.

June 2005 — June 3 a lottery is held and 98 Bermudians win affordable homes at the Harbour View Village.

September 2005 — BHP pulls out of the Southside project and refunds are given to 35 people who had invested in the market price homes.

December 2005 — Government says it will back the project, but that it may not be on.

January 2006 — Works Minister Ashfield DeVent is fired and Lt. Col. David Burch is given the position.

June 2006 — Senator Burch announces he will meet with the winners and promised the homes would be built by the end of 2006 saying he already had three contractors interested in the building.

June 2006 — announces that they have downsized the plans from 200 homes to 108 homes.

July 2006 — Senator Burch states the cost of the project will be $10.5 million of taxpayers money.

May 2007 — Senator Burch meets with the lottery winners again to present the new plans.

July 2007 — Senator Burch holds a groundbreaking ceremony, but said he does not have a contractor to build the homes.

July 2007 — Senator Burch gives and outline in the Senate saying: Six to eight weeks of site clearing, excavation and grading, concurrent with that is the removal of a 500,000 gallon underground storage tank and contract documentation preparation.

"August 2007, contract documents out to tender to invited contractors. Construction begins in September 2007."

December 2007 — An SDO is granted for the project at Southside.

March 2008 — Bermuda Housing Corporation request for contractors advertised in the Bermuda Sun.