The Minister of Housing, Noureddine Moussa, revealed on the existence of 270.000 fragile houses that are waiting for full demolition in Algeria.

• He pointed out that the process of demolition began in 2007 and is continuing according to what was planned.
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• “Government counted, two years ago, 550.000 houses on demolition, but it decreased to the limits of 270.000 houses in 2009, because of the process of demolition, that reaches 70.000 houses per year. Government issued articles in the Finance Act 2009, which granted subsidies to the owners of these buildings estimated to 700.000 dianrs per month”, he says.
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• Noureddine Moussa added, during his reply to the oral questions at the National People’s Council, that the first census of Population and Housing by the government in 1966, showed that the number of the fragile houses reached 200.000, or 10% of the total number of houses which were estimated at one million and 900.000 houses, including the population centres which were created by the French colonialism.
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• “Government undertook the re-housing of the inhabitants of these centres. The issue of compensation of the real estates’ owners, where these centres have been completed was solved since more than 40 years under the decree 88-67 of September 27, 1967 which provided for the state’s waiver of the municipal housing that are located in the population centres and compensate the owners of the real estates. As for the victims of the floods that hit Adrar, south of Algeria in 2004, Government granted 14. 637 subsidies for those affected by the total amount estimated at 17 billion dinars.