Nationalization Of Illegal Buildings Instead Of Demolition

Government decided to nationalize all the buildings that were completed by the private owners or the so-called “real estate mafia”, through the acquisition of properties and state lands or agricultural lands in illegal ways, rather than demolishing them, and using them as public facilities that belong to the municipalities, executive departments, clinics or health centers or libraries or other building, according to the needs of each municipality.

Echorouk familiar sources said that the Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, agreed to a proposal, that was made by the services of Algiers, waiting its circulation to various provinces, in order to nationalize and recover of all the buildings that were completed by some of the private owners, without a building permit, and on the state’s land, in order to settle their status and make its ownership for the benefit of municipalities inadvertently, to transform them to public facilities that are exploited in the context of the public benefit, according to the needs of each region, as the experience will be expanded to include other provinces after the capital, Algiers.

According to the same sources, the proposal was approved by the Prime Minister, after giving the green light to the Governor, Abdelkader Zoukh, to feel free to deal with the cases of illegal buildings, and work on their nationalization, and transfer them to the ownership of the public authorities, rather than resorting to demolition that leads mostly more costs to the state treasury, considering that the demolition does not make sense, as long as the ground will be a source of distortion of the urban landscape, at a time when these buildings can be exploited as public facilities to alleviate the financial burden on the state treasury.

Decision of nationalization and re-valuation of real estate and buildings that were completed illegally, will include 48 provinces, as the government ordered the governors for the need to avoid demolition operations in the case of discovering such cases, and to try to recover as much as possible of these building, and not to resort to demolition, except in necessary cases.

As a result, the services of Algiers province, decided to valuate the illegal buildings that were completed by private owners, which and were allocated to complete the hotel project at the Municipality of Cheraga, and launch the configuration and the settlement of its status, a case that led to the follow-up of local officials and the entrepreneur on charges of assault on agricultural land, in order to transform it into a medical clinic, in light of the significant shortage that is witnessed in the capital.