Housing issues

Announcing two major policy directives by the National Department of Personnel Management (DPM), the department’s Director for the New Guinea Islands region, Rhymbi Kokiva, said this is one of the policies under the public service reform in the area of human resource.

Ms Kokiva said this after the DPM reform workshop for NGI, that was aimed at providing information and awareness on policy directives from the DPM. It was also to consult and gauge feedback from key stakeholders on how best to go about implementing those key government directives.

And it will achieve this through an initiative, by the Housing Minister, to set up a housing policy steering committee.

The committee held its first meeting on Wednesday, Oct 25.

The Housing Policy Steering Committee is made up of the National Housing Corporation and line agencies, including the Department of Lands and Physical Planning, Justice and Attorney General, Office of Urbanization and the National Research Institute, among other stakeholders.