Noureddine Moussa: “Those who supply mendacious information to get a state-subsidized new housing unit, will be prosecuted”
The families now living in precarious houses “must wait and trust the State” to benefit from the significant housing quotas that are regularly received, Minister of Housing and Town Planning Noureddine Moussa said Tuesday in Algiers.
- “People must have confidence in the State and wait since rehousing programmes are underway and others are regularly completed,” he told the National Radio, adding that “building programs are being pursued and considerable quotas of new flats are regularly received.”
- With regard to misrepresentation made to obtain a new housing unit as part of the eradication process of precarious houses, the Minister said that the government would prosecute “those people who have cheated and given false information to obtain a new flat built with public funds.”
- Moreover, Moussa said that the state was committed to strengthening the capacity building of public enterprises in order to increase their shares on the domestic market in line with the five-year development programme for 2010-2014.
- Noureddine Moussa also stressed the necessity for public and private real estate developers taking part in 2010-2014 five-year plan projects to adopt a professional approach.
- The minister brought out the state’s determination to encourage “real estate developers able to renew and modernize towns through mega projects,” and to set “strict rules allowing real estate developers to take on their responsibility while carrying out building projects.”
- Algeria has made huge efforts to ensure access to housing for all social categories, according to their income and their social situation, Noureddine Moussa added.
- He recalled that Algeria had financed the construction of new social houses for low-income citizens with money of the Public Treasury.
- As regards derelict dwellings and shantytowns, the minister pointed out that Algeria had worked out a plan for the gradual eradication of this type of dwellings, adding that according to recent statistics, social housing programmes were annually set up for the rehousing of families living in shantytowns in order to finally eradicate them by the end of the country’s 2010-2014 development plan.