Affordable housing in Bermuda will be boosted by “at least 55 additional units” as the Bermuda Housing Corporation adds to its existing inventory.

Meanwhile, the Harmony Club, which the Government purchased in 2008, is now vacated by police and is being converted by BHC into seniors’ housing, with the ground floor units to be made accessible to physically challenged clients.

Renovations at the former resort property in Paget will include “the complete replacement of antiquated plumbing and electrics to bring them up to code”, Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told Parliament last Friday.

The Prospect apartments, which cater mainly to elderly clients, contain 42 units that are being renovated as each becomes available to the BHC. Colonel Burch said the BHC hoped to add an elevator to the three-storey building.

A vacant police facility at 21 Barracks Close in St George’s was handed over to the Corporation in June for repurposing, and appeared to lend itself to a potential housing complex for single persons, the minister said.

Derelict and vacant properties around the island are under repair with the help of a BHC team, assisted by workers from the Hustle Truck.

A team has also been assigned to repair 27 buildings that were constructed using a “severely flawed” method of pouring concrete into plastic moulds, the minister said, with nine now refurbished.