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The Cabinet agreed to scale-up the HAPI (Housing Assistance Program for the Indigent).<\/p>

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The aim is to increase its workforce so that it can work on repairing and improving several houses of the neediest, many simultaneously, following the disaster.<\/p>\n

Even as the Government continues to stimulate economic growth during these Covid-19 times, the Cabinet has authorized the Ministry of Finance to seek a loan of $5 million dollars from the Caribbean Union Bank (CUB).<\/p>

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The loan is to meet the increased expense generated by the natural disaster, especially the repair of the destroyed infrastructure.<\/p>

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The Cabinet agreed to scale-up the HAPI (Housing Assistance Program for the Indigent). The aim is to increase its workforce so that it can work on repairing and improving several houses of the neediest, many simultaneously, following the disaster. Even as the Government continues to stimulate economic growth during these Covid-19 times, the Cabinet has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[118,119,117,116,107,88,102,94,96,91,90,99,92,114,115,98,108,106,104,109,95,120,105,110,112,113,111,101,103,97],"class_list":["post-119623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-268-antigua","tag-268-antigua-barbuda","tag-268-antigua-today","tag-268-today","tag-advertise-in-antigua","tag-antigua","tag-antigua-barbuda","tag-antigua-and-barbuda","tag-antigua-breaking-news","tag-antigua-caribbean","tag-antigua-crime","tag-antigua-economy-news","tag-antigua-news","tag-antigua-news-rooom","tag-antigua-observer","tag-antigua-politics","tag-antiguan-news","tag-barbuda","tag-barbuda-news","tag-barbudan-news","tag-breaking-news-antigua","tag-dow-jones","tag-news","tag-news-antigua","tag-news-antigua-barbuda","tag-news-antigua-and-barbuda","tag-news-barbuda","tag-news-in-antigua","tag-news-in-barbuda","tag-tourism-news"],"yoast_head":"\n$5 Million CUB Loan For Housing Repairs For The Needy - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/5-million-cud-loan-for-housing-repairs-for-the-needy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"$5 Million CUB Loan For Housing Repairs For The Needy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cabinet agreed to scale-up the HAPI (Housing Assistance Program for the Indigent). 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