Housing: Temmar Requires New Work Schedules To make Up For Delays As From 2018

The Minister of Housing, Town Planning and the City, Mr. Abdelwahid Temmar, instructed Sunday the various local officials of the sector to establish a new work plan with specific objectives to make up for the delays accumulated in the achievement of housing projects especially regarding the public-rental type and LPA in the province of Bouira, eastern Algeria.

Expressing his utter dissatisfaction at the recorded delays in the construction of LPL and LPA housing projects, some of which have been launched since 2000, which are still under construction, Mr. Temmar insisted on the imperative for all the senior executives of the sector in Bouira as well as those of other provinces in the country – to provide “new work schedules and all the exact figures needed” so as to be able to boost the pace of implementation and catch up with the current construction-related delays which he described as “unacceptable”.

“We have to work on the basis of new schedules with honesty in the presentation of figures and of course with regular and rigorous field visits and controls, and all this untoward situation must change in 2018. We want to make up for the delays and reach the objective of achieving 1. 600 000 new housing units  as registered under the program of the President of the Republic Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika,” the minister underscored.

“In 2017, the rate is considered insufficient in the province of Bouira, there are more than 16,000 housing units, or half of the program allocated for this province, are still in progress since 2000 and 2006, he noted. 

“This figure is huge. It is inconceivable to see projects still in progress for ten years after their launch. There is no reason to justify these delays in 2018, all this must change,” hammered Mr. Temmar, noting that nearly 800 LPL housing units, launched since 2010, are still not completed. “It’s unacceptable,” he underlined.

“For the LPA housing formula, it is even more serious: Hundreds of LPA units launched since 2000 are still not delivered, and it is abnormal to stay working with these old programs and protracted delays,” he said indignantly.

“In addition, more than 4,000 other dwellings in the precarious housing eradication program have not been delivered for six years since their launch in 2011”, he added. 

“So, I take this opportunity to urge the Housing and Housing Directors notably those of the OPGI to avoid this kind of delay in 2018, because the citizens need their new homes and the pressure is huge,” insisted Mr. Temmar.

The Housing Minister also pointed out that his department would undertake rigorous on site inspection visits across the country to ensure the smooth progress of construction projects under the new work schedules to be established by local housing officials, and those of the OPGI in close consultation with the various Walis or Governors.

“We must now work rigorously in a spirit of teamwork and consultation between local authorities and central authorities,” said Mr. Temmar in the context.

The minister further announced that new stringent instructions will be  conveyed to all local officials concerned across the various provinces of the country enjoining them to work in this perspective so as to foster a unified working method to avert as from now on the lingering delays, he explained to journalists.