Algeria: Plots of land and estates held by former “colonial settlers” earmarked to achieve 100,000 new dwellings

The Chairman of the national organization of construction experts and engineers Abdelhamid Boudaoud has sent a letter to the Ministry of housing and town planning, containing a proposal for the creation of new mortgage estate pools to implement housing projects that haven’t been achieved so far on account of the dire lack of the necessary plots of land meant for construction.

The latter explained that the demolition of the old dilapidated buildings and estates established in the colonial era in the central provinces of Algeria  could facilitate the recovery of vast tracts of land that will allow for the construction of about 100 thousand new housing units in the course of this year.

Mr Boudaoud said in a statement to “Echorouk” that the Government is compelled in the next phase to start search for new building spaces to carry through  the ongoing housing projects, especially in the light of the Ministry’s declared intention to build more than 2 million new apartments under various housing formulas for the benefit of subscribers in order to stamp out for good the long-running acute housing crisis in Algeria.

He also recalled that the authorities’ decision taken in 1984 to remove a large number of colonial era dwellings and estates across Algiers province has so far remained a dead letter for still murky reasons, while urging the government to take this pending file seriously into account as early as possible.