Liberia: 'Small Step Forward' - 16 Benefit From Home Ownership in Liberia

Monrovia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has commended 16 recipients of the Brewerville Housing Estate for taking advantage of the opportunity to own their own homes and encouraged others to join them as the Liberian Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI) tries to roll out and expand its mortgage program to benefit other interested Liberians across the country.

The Liberian leader urged the National Housing Authority (NHA) to create designs for the communities where schools, clinics, stores, playgrounds can be factored in and the inhabitants don't have to leave their communities to be able to benefit from basic social services.

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