Economists: 3 million housing units to end housing and the problem of unemployment

Il Giornale 5 hours ago

BAGHDAD Journal News ,
a student who specializes in economic affairs, government to the success of the housing projects, the allocation of land for building houses and residential complexes, while encouraging the establishment of manufacturing construction and opening of housing loans, pointing out that Iraq needs to revitalize the housing and construction projects in the current crisis because it is useless economic, as make a profit and contribute to the operation of large numbers of unemployed, as well as satisfy the need is one of the necessities of life.

While researchers averred, that the solution to the housing crisis, can not be achieved without the establishment of large residential complexes giant construction projects, which absorb large numbers of the population through the establishment of multi - storey buildings and prefabricated casting to exploit the speed factor.

Economic analyst said the sanctuary of the Secretary, in an interview (Journal News), said that " a large and growing housing crisis, as beyond the country 's three million housing units needed before 2020, and the government is required to provide chances of success of the housing projects, sorting through residential land and the other for the construction of housing complexes, with the support of the establishment of brick and cement plants construction and supplies such as plastic pipes, glass and aluminum electrical, installations, as well as the opening of housing loans, whether residential complexes vertical or horizontal , and supplying them with services. "

He said the Secretary, " the housing crisis inherited decades ago, especially in provincial centers, due to the growing population and the recovery of the living situation for most of them."

He stressed that "the revitalization of the housing sector will serve the national economy in terms of providing jobs and wide for the unemployed, especially engineers, technicians and skilled workers and unskilled, as well as the operation of transport and coefficient of blacksmithing, carpentry sector along with brick plants and cement and quarrying sand and gravel, and all of these production units must be a national far from import to ensure the recycling of money within the country and not going out of it. "

Secretary said that "the government, issuing regulations and laws to prevent the import of construction materials, and at the same time is supported by laboratories and factories producing locally, as in the cement plants in the past year where surpassed domestic production in quantity and quality, and covered the local need and configuration to export the surplus of the Iraqi cement abroad, the government should support the specialized laboratories for the production of complementary materials and contribute to the construction operations, such as glass, aluminum, iron, wood and tile, as well as bricks, along with plastic and production of electric wire and health material factor. "

The Secretary stated that "the deployment of residential complexes either horizontal or vertical in the various regions of the country and lack of concentration in certain areas and the establishment of production units nearby giant Kalmaaml or agricultural fields or tourism projects or transportation and other projects."

It owns the country, a number of private housing finance Almaossat the Land Bank of the Ministry of Finance and the Housing Fund of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and private banks as well as bank Rafidain and Rasheed, who confer loans, housing for employees, and the government has to support these banks financially reorientation towards lending housing and facilitate transactions of the citizens.

In turn, economic researcher, Salim Shami's (Journal News), said that "the worsening housing crisis, due to the limited projects for housing and scarcity in more than two decades due to stop the state from building residential complexes with high population growth rates, high land prices and increased allowances rent because of the legislation, which organized the real estate market, which descended into the chaos of speculation, and the reluctance of the private sector to participate establishment of residential complexes ".

He drew attention to the "high prices of construction materials as well as the limited ones done locally due to suspension of some facilities and rudimentary each other."

Shami called "exaggerations exceeded engineering durability and relative housing some well-known tradition among Iraqis, especially those living in slums and mud buildings and houses Elsafaij rail - Ginkgo taking into concern the legitimacy of these poor precedence in housing."

He continued, "We need a well thought out solutions pre-planned closely the physical capabilities of the citizens, and their conditions of life and humanity difficult and their legitimate right to access to housing as citizens of Iraqis living in a state exceptional Mashah and their inability to provide adequate housing Badmithm and dignity of homelessness and destitution of life."

"It is an urgent need to activate the distribution of residential land to citizens and discounted prices commensurate national income for the Iraqi people and obtaining their money in monthly installments."

He pointed Shami, to "the importance of facilitating housing soft loans to citizens and to encourage the Iraqi private sector and investments of domestic and international in this vital sector and contracting with well-known in the field of Construction and Housing and facilitate their tasks in Iraq and to utilize them in the operation of Iraqi manpower to gain experience and skill in the construction and housing sector, global companies across these companies for the future Iraqi self-sufficiency of skilled labor as well as open courses in the inside and outside Iraq for the rehabilitation of workers in the sector of structural engineers and technical staffs and middle-skilled workers and ".anthy

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