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Real estate prices up to astronomical figures and expectations of the upside .. An exchange of accusations between the ages and the Investment Authority and the Governorate of Baghdad on the housing crisis
Saturday, July 30, 2011 08:00
Baghdad is plagued by a number of provinces and a big increase in the price of real estate and land plots under the severe housing crisis, successive governments have failed to find a solution.
In the view of Congress that the cause of the crisis due to lack of government to a clear strategy to solve the housing crisis and the failure to resolve this issue will lead to increased prices and access to a certain extent fantasy is hard when he could any citizen to buy property in the country with increasing population density, as Iraq is expected to Tasman number Nefoussa 2020, up to 50 million people.
And central government deficit has emerged as the exchange of accusations between the Ministry of Construction and Housing, the province of Baghdad, as the other, each carrying the responsibility for not finding a solution to the housing crisis.
Deputy in the National Alliance for the current niche Shahid Abdul Hussein Abtan believes that Ahlol fast looming on the horizon for the housing crisis in Iraq. "
He told all of Iraq [where] the lack of strategy and obvious achievements in the provision of housing to create a large gap and a random act does not rise to the level of ambition. "
Abtan said that lack of financial allocations that are allocated for housing projects do not fit the size of the problem and the large decline in the level and decline to provide adequate housing ".
Abtan and called on the government to take responsibility and solve this problem as one of the most important problems in Iraq service after the electricity. "
The governor of Baghdad, Salah Abdul-Razzaq has accused the Ministry of Construction and Housing, told all of Iraq [where] default on completion of housing projects for the citizens, stressing that the work is disproportionate to the scale of the crisis of actual housing. And that the achievements are very few and not more than one per thousand by the need of the country's actual of housing.
He added that "the total housing units built by the ministry over the past seven years does not exceed [14] thousand residential units," adding that "conservative ready to set up housing projects free of charge in the capital and distributed to the poor and displaced if teamed with some of the ministries."
For its part, carried the Ministry of Construction and Housing in the province of Baghdad failure of the housing crisis and the evasion of their responsibilities in the field of construction and private Maitalq provide housing. Confirmed that the statements apply to the governor of Baghdad, the provincial council, and not on the ministry's achievements and very few do not exceed the rate of one per thousand of the country's actual need of housing.
Amid this debate, the price per square meter in Baghdad between 1.5 million dinars to 3 million / $ 1200 to $ 2600 / This means that any small house not to exceed percent meters will be priced approximately 150 million to 200 million, figures which fantasy is difficult for most families purchase of residential units at this price.
Liberal MP from the bloc Riad al-Zaidi said the Sadrist movement is the first of the blocks, which demanded that every citizen apartment or house, low cost and at a reasonable price. "
He told all of Iraq [where] we asked if the inability to provide adequate housing plots the distribution of loans and grants to citizens. "
Zaidi said that this proposal did not succeed due to collision with some political and financial constraints. "
Zaidi and that despite opposition to the housing project in the camp of good ambition now is to provide the Sadrist movement · decent housing. "
The MP for the Sadr movement said the draft 10 × 10 and faced some problems and disputes which led to the tardy work it. "
And show the religious authority in Najaf growing concern the aggravation of the housing crisis as a student representative of the supreme religious authority in Karbala, Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai government to "develop a plan to distribute land to the citizens to alleviate the housing crisis experienced by the country."
Said Karbalai in a Friday sermon yesterday, "the crisis task through which Iraq and the need to develop plans to address the housing crisis and the phenomenon of widening neighborhoods overrun and the proliferation of houses of mud and tin, which reflect the scale of the suffering of broad segments of the Iraqi people."
He added that "there are many citizens who were forced by the circumstances of the lack of housing and the difficulty of collecting housing until the rent due to the high rent, which reached a limit of widening did not reach it until the neighbors complain of confusion and difficulty of access to suitable accommodation for them as asking them to local governments to raise their transgressions" .
It seems that the investment is entered on the other line to take responsibility as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Construction and Housing Faleh Al Amri holds the investment responsibility by not providing the opportunity to Mstttmaren to build housing complexes.
He told all of Iraq [where] "The performance of the Authority for Ajriqa to the reality of the challenge in dealing with investors and providing attractive investment environment for investors."
"We hear about the dozens of licenses, but do not see work on the floor," calling to change the mechanisms of action and activate the single-window project and the granting of land to set up investment projects.
In turn, called the Iraqi List MP Talal Zobaie to "organize the differences that are available for oil revenue law which can be used in projects related to the lives of citizens."
He told all of Iraq [where] that "the money can be invested in solving the housing crisis, which started to deteriorate in recent years."
Zobaie said that "the difference in the price of Iraqi oil export revenues can solve many problems faced by the citizen in his daily vocabulary."
As a student and Construction and Housing Minister, Mohammed al-Darraji owner, allocate 2 percent of the investment budget for future years for a housing project of the poor, noting that the amounts allocated for housing to block any of Iraq's need of housing units
"The housing did not take the right balance in 2011 because Iraq needs now to two million housing units, and dedicated enough to build 2,500 housing units, and this means that the problem of housing need several years to resolve, if it remained the amounts allocated to this aspect maintain the current proportions ".
The Iraq's budget for this financial year is estimated at [86] billion dollars calculated on the basis that the price of a barrel of oil [76] dollars, economists have estimated that the surplus will be achieved from high oil prices in the budget for Iraq this year, more than $ 15 billion
Most of the blocks and was promised the citizens during the election campaign to resolve the housing crisis and the provision of housing units to them, but that after the passage of more than a year of elections did not achieve anything noteworthy.
For her part, MP for the Liberal block Zainab Alshlana that the project of the distribution of plots on the citizens referred to the Committee on Housing and Construction for some time.
Alshlana said in a statement to the Agency all of Iraq [where] that "the Liberal bloc said in the previous week, the project was let us know that the project related to the law of Housing Fund, Fraithama voting on the Law Housing Fund, will present a distribution of plots to citizens."
She added, "it was enforcement action and administrative by the ministries concerned, namely the Ministry of Municipalities and the Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction through the provision of housing complexes and by taking advantage of the legal texts existing in the organization of Iraqi law, a distribution of plots to all citizens and all groups without damaging the legislation of the law," saying, "He was the distribution of the number of pieces of land in the provinces."
Alshlana attributed the causes of the crisis residential developments today to the former regime has ordered the arrest of the distribution of land to citizens in spite of continued population increase during the past years. "
The reports and studies by non-governmental organizations, and international companies, to the need for Iraq for 20 years to exceed the housing crisis affecting, at the time the Housing Ministry confirmed that Iraq needs to be two and a half million units to overcome the crisis.
Iraq has suffered infrastructure crumbling as a result of continuous wars, economic blockade, while the laws have affected the previous year after 2003 and the overlap of powers between the ministries and independent bodies and the security situation on the implementation of some housing projects
As a student member of the House of Representatives from a coalition of state law, Hussein al-Asadi government and the House of Representatives to support the private sector and make it possible facilities for the construction of housing projects in order to eliminate the housing crisis in the country.
Asadi said, told all of Iraq [where] that "the country is going through a severe housing crisis requires everyone to develop solutions to eliminate this crisis," noting here that the statistics indicate that 60% of the Iraqi people do not own a home. "
"The solution to this crisis lies in the work to attract foreign capital and the movement of the private sector to build housing complexes to absorb this crisis," calling traders Iraqi expatriates to contribute to solving the housing crisis faced by the country, especially in Baghdad. "
Asadi said, "The Ministry of Construction and the province of Baghdad are interested in the elimination of this crisis and find appropriate solutions to them." Ended 2
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