Expert explains the advantages of launching the housing supply strategy




Sunday, 2 July 2017 10:51 AM
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Baghdad, / ... Economic expert Bassem Jameel Antoine said on Sunday that the launch of the strategy of providing housing and through an integrated plan involving the government and private sector will have a huge positive. He explained that this process will operate the construction sector in full, as the construction industry constitutes 50% Of the country's industry, he explained that the implementation of the strategy of providing housing requires a lot of labor and thus eliminate unemployment.

Antoine told "Iraq News", that "the launch of the strategy of providing housing and through an integrated plan, including the government and private sector will have a large positive," noting that "this process will operate the construction sector fully, as the construction industry accounts for 50% of the country's industry Both government and private. "

"The implementation of the strategy of providing housing requires a lot of manpower, as each housing house enough for six people needs 769 working days per worker and thus eliminate unemployment, which has become a major scourge threatens the Iraqi economy," pointing out that "the elimination of Unemployment will eliminate poverty as the daily worker 25 thousand Iraqi dinars and be monthly about 700 to 750 thousand dinars and the level of the poverty line 110 thousand, which means that he rose above the poverty line.

The economic expert on behalf of Jamil Antoine has confirmed, on Thursday (22 June 2017), that Iraq needs three and a half million of the number of housing units to resolve the housing crisis, noting that the presidents of the Republic and the government and the House of Representatives and over the past years have violated the constitutional right not to Iraq needs about 25 years to solve the problem of housing in the event of a strategic plan to build 250 thousand housing units annually and through various ministries and departments of the State and work under the slogan (the fastest building, more units, less expensive) to serve the citizen .

It is noteworthy that Iraq suffers from a crisis of housing suffocation caused the spread of slums on a wide level and in all governorates, while the parties did not take any concrete action to address the crisis. Finished 2

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