The housing crisis requires serious cooperation between the public and private sector
The housing crisis requires serious cooperation between the public and private sectors
The housing crisis in Iraq is intertwined and requires concerted efforts to reduce it, because it is the result of several reasons, including population growth and the fragmentation of families. One way to reduce this crisis is to build additional housing units and to ensure continued flow of funding for housing projects, especially those implemented by the Ministry of Construction and Housing.
Housing Department
Director of Housing Policy Department at the Ministry of Housing, Dr. Mohammed Haidar Abdul Hadi stressed that accurate statistics on the actual need for housing units are not available, however, the Ministry of Construction and Housing in 2009 a statistical inventory and numbering a large set of data we were able to work in 2011. He added that the statistics indicate that the country needs 2 million housing units by 2016. The need for housing units in 2011 was 800,000 units and increased to two million because of the need for housing units. Iraq's population growth of 3 percent annually.
Completion of housing units
Abdul Hadi pointed out that the government achievement, under the plan of the Ministry of Housing within the national policy for housing, which set the distribution of production is 85 percent for the private sector and investment and 15 percent for the government and cooperative sector, and the three thousand percent of the budget allocations for housing can not be achieved by the achievement. 85% of the private sector and investment, which was supported by the Ministry through the loans of the Housing Fund and the Real Estate Bank, while the 15% of which 5% allocated to the implementation of our ministry, however, can not be implemented because of the lack of allocations, and 10 percent of the cooperative sector (General Union for Cooperation) He added that the numbers of our completion so far about 10 thousand housing units, mostly vertical housing, indicating that the housing units of the Foundation of martyrs and widows built the system of horizontal housing, and was completed in the provinces of Najaf, Karbala, Basra and Wasit. Abdel Hadi reveals that the need for more than two million housing units per unit is occupied by a family of six people, the need here for housing to be 10 million people.
Investment in housing
Abdul Hadi continued to work in 11 to 12 complexes for the construction of investment housing units for the staff of our ministry and if the remaining units are sold to the rest of the employees of other ministries, as agreed by the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers to build housing complexes investment for their staff and here emerged technical problems with the investor in addition to problems of land ownership and return. He pointed to the need to provide land and transfer to the investor under the Law No. 13 of the year 3006 on investment, explaining that the investor can not work unless the land turned in his name and these problems the ministry is working to resolve, for example Taji complex and Ameria complex (foreign investor nationality) There are projects suspended from work because of the financial crisis and these housing complexes investment rate of 12-12%. We added a compound in Nasiriyah by more than 50 percent and is now suspended for a problem with the investor (foreign nationality), financial and technical and there are committees in the ministry working to resolve These problems, as the project Besmaya implemented by the company (Hnoa) Korean loans, which is not an investment but a contractor. For his part, a member of the Baghdad Economic Forum Jassem Al-Aradi said that the housing problem can be addressed through serious cooperation between the public and private sectors, indicating the possibility of the distribution of tasks between them to lead each side its role in the implementation of tasks entrusted to him to the fullest. He pointed out in an interview with "Sabah" that the private sector has the operational capabilities and here comes the role of the public sector to provide the appropriate environment for it.
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