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The struggle to find and provide safe,affordable housing in the territory is not just limited to public agencies like the Virgin Islands Housing Authority. The decimation of the U.S.V.I’s housing stock by the 2017 hurricanes plus industry pressures in the year... More »
Deferred maintenance issues in public housing units are driving eye watering utility bills for the Virgin Islands Housing Authority. VIHA said it is expecting to have to pay the V.I. Water and Power Authority up to $7 million in water expenses this year. Speak... More »
Legislators were not satisfied that the Virgin Islands Housing Authority on Monday was unable to say when it would complete its current housing projects to offer much-needed accommodations to residents in the territory. VIHA said it had 100 units available for... More »
Delegate to Congress Stacey Plaskett has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that, if passed into law, would give the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $1 billion each year for the next decade to “implement projects that r... More »
The descendants of an English family that held over a thousand enslaved Africans and forced them to labor on six plantations throughout Grenada, have now apologized for their family’s actions. During a reparations forum hosted by the Grenada National Reparatio... More »
