Praise the directions to improve the housing file

As part of the government efforts to support the housing sector, the cabinet approved last week the formation of the National Housing Initiative Committee headed by Prime Minister Dr. Haider al-Abadi.
This step has received great praise from the residents and experts in the Housing and Real Estate file for its importance in eliminating the housing crisis, which began gradually to retreat from what it was during the past years after the construction of dozens of housing complexes and the distribution of billions of dinars within the Housing Fund and public and private banks.
According to a government statement, the committee is responsible for implementing the public housing projects included in the annual housing plans by the public companies of the ministry and the private and mixed companies, and ensuring adequate housing for citizens through the development and implementation of the housing policy. To occupy any land belonging to the State free of charge in coordination with the owner as well as the right to acquire the property needed to achieve its objectives, and the National Housing Initiative Committee to consider cases in which decisions were issued and the allocation of the procedures are not completed.
The real estate specialist Saad al-Zaidan said that this step is "an important starting point" to change the concept of housing citizens did not witness the country before.
Al-Zaidan expected the next two years to witness a "real revolution" in the field of construction, especially with regard to the completion of housing complexes, pointing out that the prime minister succeeded in promoting the economy and he is looking at an important detail which is housing.
The Cabinet resolution also stipulates that the distribution of unoccupied plots of land with 50 percent of the real value should be the sale of plots of land distributed by the infrastructure (water, sewage networks, electricity, roads) belonging to the municipalities and the Municipality of Baghdad with real allowance Including the value of infrastructure within the project.
It also stipulates that the trade-off between those covered shall be in accordance with the criteria of differentiation prepared by the Ministry of Construction and Housing and the Municipality of Baghdad, with the acceptance of the guarantee of the plot of land 25 / permanent for the purposes of credit from the Real Estate Bank and Housing Fund, and encourage ministries and entities not associated with the Ministry to allocate plots of land for the purpose of building residential complexes Investment Road.
The decision to implement the decision of the Council of Ministers including the sale of the role and apartments to the legal occupier, in addition to the Ministry of Finance to share the share of orchards to the owners of the right to disposition, and keep the distribution of plots of land allocated to the segments covered by legislation in force in accordance with the conditions specified by law, Land by birth or place of employment for a period not less than five years.
Zaidan pointed out that the decision of the Council of Ministers is fair and thoughtful, especially with regard to the distribution of land serviced and the inclusion of most of the distribution groups, as well as the distribution of land between the security men and the military, with the modernization of the birthplace and workplace.

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