Iraq needs two million housing units and proposals to resolve the crisis

by **RamblerNash** Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:57 pm

Iraq needs two million housing units and proposals to resolve the crisis

12/01/2017 11:38

The Secretary-General of the Council of Minister Mahdi Keywords Iraq needs at least two million housing units.

He stressed Keywords according to a statement to inform the Secretariat, said that "what has been achieved in reforming the efficiency of housing is not commensurate with the size of the need to provide adequate housing to citizens, pointing out that the latest figures suggest the country's need to create at least two million housing units to solve the housing crisis, taking into account of increased domestic part in society. "

The statement added that: "It chaired a meeting to coordinate the actions and tasks between the executive and legislative branches in the presence of the relevant authorities to find solutions and treatments for heart housing, was to discuss three proposals submitted by the parliamentary committee competent and the Supreme Council for Housing and the advisers."

He said the proposals "included the creation of integrated projects to close the population gap, according to the concepts of joint and facilitate the implementation of housing initiatives procedures and make it a priority that serve an important segment in the community of low-income and slum-dwellers and those who are below the poverty line according to a unified national policy."

He assembled according to the statement "the need to choose and customize the appropriate land to build housing units and the enactment of laws that make it easier to provide those units procedures, and the adoption of highways in the construction and activation of laws that prohibit indiscriminate building and put the right frameworks for building and reconstruction of the country and the need to tackle corruption, which affects in attracting investors ".

The meeting recommended that "the formation of three teams dealing with finalizing the legislation, the law on housing projects and funding constraints as well as the concerned authority to allocate land."

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