Thousands of teachers, deprived of housing, live in hotel rooms

The head of the National Union of Education and Vocational Training has appealed to Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, to take the necessary measures in order to allot a sizable quota of new housing units for the benefit of numerous teachers who lack decent housing owing, he said, to the neglectful and couldn’t care less policy towards their lot by the local authorities in charge of the outstanding housing file in Algeria.

Taking the floor during a ceremony held Saturday in Algiers on the occasion of the celebration of the World Teachers’ Day, Mr Sadek D’ziri called on the Prime Minister to see to it that those teachers and education personnel, deprived up to now of housing, could be granted decent accommodation as every other eligible citizens under the various new housing programmes initiated by the relevant ministerial departments.

He described these teachers’ social situation as disquieting arguing that many of them were living in precarious conditions notably in ramshackle dwellings in various parts of the country and more fortunate others were renting hotel rooms for long periods against their will, causing big losses from their monthly incomes.

Mr Sadek D’ziri  said this vexed issue should be addressed at the earliest possible time by the authorities concerned to allow large segments of  hapless teachers acquire new apartments as part of the LSP, AADL, or Public Promotional Housing programs in order to let them devote themselves heartily to the fulfillment of their lofty teaching mission in the country’s schools in the most appropriate conditions.