111,000 chaotic houses on the roofs of buildings and inside their cellars in Algeria

Algerian Ministry of housing and construction in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior and Local Communities, decided to begun removing the chaotic houses which are built on the roofs of buildings and cellars in the various Algerian major cities, especially in the capital Algiers, Oran (west of Algeria), Constantine and Annaba (east).

• This procedure aims at rehabilitating the Algerian cities, where the construction and reconstruction interests across the various provinces counted more than 111,000 stannic houses which were built over the roofs’ surfaces and inside the buildings’ cellars.
• The roofs of many buildings transformed to houses which were built by hundreds of Algerian families, experiencing the housing crisis, which has worsened at the beginning of the Nineties, to reach its peak during the last millenium, and caused the Algerian towns’ environment distortion.
• Despite many attempts by the public authorities to remove such houses, but they failed each time, and the most dangerous is that these chaotic barracks become a real threat against the inhabitants’ safety, particularly buildings that are fragile, and which represent 8.11 percent of the total – according to the UN report for the years 2006 and 2007-, and the International Body recorded a development of this phenomenon in Algeria.
• These figures are added to the presence of about 500 stannic houses – according to the latest report of the Architectural Engineers Organization- . The same report revealed that many regions know an evolution of this phenomenon, and that more 1500 municipalities contain stannic and fragil houses, in the absence of the Algerian authaurities strict control.