Housing Ministry: “40% of new social housing units earmarked for married couples less than 35 years of age”

The Ministry of housing, town planning and the city has announced the enforcement of new incentive measures for the benefit of young Algerian married couples in terms of acquisition of new housing units as part of the state’s social-oriented housing program.

The Ministry seized the opportunity of a timely youth conference on economic performance which opened on Monday in Algiers to announce such an incentive program destined to the Algerian young couples to allow them to secure decent accommodation with the help of the state authorities.

As a result, the Ministry has decided to earmark a quota of 40 per cent of the public housing rental programs for young married applicants aged less than 35 years old while another 10 per cent of this social housing quota will be devoted to those married couples aged around 25 years. This comes in the framework of the state’s national development plan aimed at promoting the Algerian youth in quest of decent lodging and job opportunities.

In the same context, the strategy for the modernization of the housing sector aims at increasing the national building capacity and creating a balance between housing demand and supply, said earlier this week in Algiers Minister of Housing, Town Planning and the City, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

“In order to meet the growing demand and to eradicate the crisis, the sector of housing aims at increasing the national building capacity to 120,000 housing units per year during the next five-year development plan, against 80,000 currently,” said the minister in his address at a seminar on housing.

The meeting, which has brought together experts and players in the sectors, aims at underlining the need to modernize the sector of housing, said Mr Tebboune.

In this regard, the minister insisted on the “industrialization” of housing construction and the compliance of the building methods with anti-seismic standards.

He also underlined the need to use new technologies in housing projects in order to reduce the cost, ensure better quality and meet the deadlines, giving the example of the housing estates of Ain Allah (Delly Brahim), Rabia (Bab Ezzouar) in Algiers  and Boussouf in (Constantine).