Luxury townhouses with views of leaky boats being built on Christmas Island Advanced construction can be seen on the Federal Government's latest housing initiative - The Christmas Island Housing Program. Drumsite Village is touted to be accommodation for staff such as teachers and nurses required to care for the Island's burgeoning asylum seeker population. STYLISH townhouses with "magnificent sea views" are being built to house government staff on Christmas Island amid a boom in the arrival of asylum seekers. Teachers who work with refugee kids, Australian Federal Police officers, healthcare workers and other government administration staff will get access to 16 luxury two and three bedroom homes from next month. The buildings were commissioned by the Department of Regional Australia under a contract worth more than $11 million. It can also be revealed the Department of Immigration has a multi-million-dollar contract for its employees to be housed at the "luxury" Christmas Island Resort.As another two boats arrived in Australian waters, the Christmas Island Resort confirmed yesterday a total of 169 rooms were booked out by DIAC and Serco staff, with another 12 employees due to check in last night. The resort, which is described on its website as a "luxury retreat" charges $225 a night for its basic rooms to the public. The Gillard government this month green-lighted a second stage of the Drumsite Village housing project - which is being administrated by Queensland-based Canstruct who are building the Nauru detention facility. The second stage will bring online another 12 townhouses by next year which are described in the company's newsletter as "easily the most stylish and modern building development on Christmas Island." "Unlike many Christmas Island housing options, this development is well designed, has all the mod-cons and takes advantage of the magnificent sea views," the March 2013 bulletin states. A spokesman for the Department of Regional Australia said the accommodation would not be used to house government staff specifically working inside the island's processing centre, but more those who worked in the local community and could also provide services to asylum-seekers. However a boom in the number of asylum-seeker arrivals and the number of staff needed to work at the island facility has left the local real estate market in "crisis" according to the Christmas Island Workers Union. Gordon Thomson, a former Christmas Island shire president now head of the workers union, said around 650 workers were currently on Christmas Island purely for the running of the detention facility. He said the Canstruct dwellings would help take detention centre staff out of the private rental market which would free up space for Serco and DIAC employees. "This housing will relieve some pressure," Mr Thomson said. This has been a hidden problem for years that there is not enough housing for workers on the island. Christmas Island residents told News Limited they were unhappy about the new project. What about everyone else? We need a new nursing home and other buildings constructed, we need roads fixed but you don't see any money being put into that," one resident said. Close to 3000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Australian waters in the first three months of this year, which is more than double the amount over the same period in 2012.