It is expected that the adoption of the slum law will be delayed for more than a year due to differe

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[size=52]It is expected that the adoption of the slum law will be delayed for more than a year due to differences[/size]

[size=45]Translation: Hamed Ahmed[/size]
[size=45]A press report expected that the process of legislating a law to address slums would take more than a year, pointing out that the current draft contains many problems, but he did not rule out the government's recourse to the law after it was approved before the Federal Supreme Court calling for amendments without returning to it.[/size]
[size=45]A report by (Al-Monitor) news website, translated by Al-Mada, stated that “the House of Representatives began at the beginning of this month to discuss a bill to address population abuses for the purpose of finding solutions to the problem of the expansion of slums across the country and spread within Baghdad’s residential neighborhoods.” The report added, "There are several consequences that may hinder the passage of this law amid an ongoing social and political crisis."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "Iraq contains more than 5,000 slum areas that contain more than half a million homes, and in which approximately 3.5 million people live."[/size]
[size=45]The report pointed out that “most of these emergency housing gatherings, which are called demographic abuses or slums, have emerged after the change of the previous regime in 2003 and the current political system took over the affairs of the country.” Representative Alia Nassif said, “Attempts to search for a solution to this crisis began in 2014 with a plan to rent the land, on which random housing violations were built, to its poor occupants for a small fee.”[/size]
[size=45]Nassif added, "The slum areas lack public services, such as paved streets, schools, drinking water, electricity and other basic needs." Nassif stressed, "Residents of slums are not able to register their children or complete certain transactions in government departments."[/size]
[size=45]For his part, one of the owners of brokerage shops to mediate the sale and purchase of real estate in Baghdad said, “The current housing crisis in Iraq has led to an increase in the prices of the areas of Baghdad’s commercial centers to more than 20 thousand dollars per square meter, compared to 600 dollars for the price per square meter in the outskirts of cities. “.[/size]
[size=45]Nassif returns to say, "Parliament will amend the draft law and seek to help the residents own the land on which they live, but if the plot of land was originally classified as industrial or commercial, it cannot be owned."[/size]
[size=45]The report stressed, "The Iraqi government had proposed the establishment of a fund to address the problem to be financed through reduced rent allowances paid by the residents of these slums, and from the general budget and loans."[/size]
[size=45]He added, "This fund will provide basic services in these residential neighborhoods, such as roads, sewage networks, sewage water, schools, a health services center, a police station, and other services." For his part, a spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi, stated that "slums are still being built in Iraq, and this must stop."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi continued, "Approximately two thousand residential areas bypassed slums in Iraq were in 2010."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi pointed out that “this number doubled in 2016 to 4,000 slums, but now there are more than 5,000 slums in the country.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi stressed that "Baghdad alone contains more than 10,22 informal settlement areas, followed by Basra, which contains 700 residential slums."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi believes that the draft law is a solution to this problem, and it was drafted in cooperation with the United Nations, which stipulates the construction of quick-implementation and low-cost housing units in cooperation with Chinese companies, as well as renting homes in these areas for 25 years through contracts that ultimately lead to their ownership.[/size]
[size=45]The report finds, "Government employees are still unable to remove these housing abuses," explaining that "the director of Karbala's municipality, Abeer al-Khafaji, was killed last year in a slum area while he was supervising the governorate's municipal campaign to remove illegal housing abuses." accompanied by security forces.[/size]
[size=45]The report went on to state that “a small part of these residential slums were established by poor families,” while it stated, “Another part of them was established by armed factions that acquired lands and sold them to others.”[/size]
[size=45]And the report continues, that “a part of the owners of agricultural lands, due to the lack of water, razed their orchards and sold plots of lands in them to citizens in order to build houses for them in them.”[/size]
[size=45]Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Services Committee, Adnan al-Juhaishi, said that "the law in its current form is unfair to slum dwellers."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Juhaishi continued, "A meeting will bring us together with provincial council officials and mayors to reach a draft law that best suits citizens. The law will provide new solutions.”[/size]
[size=45]The report expected, "The period for passing this law will take more than a year, after amending the draft of this bill."[/size]
[size=45]It is not excluded, "the Council of Ministers resorting to objecting to the law after it was approved before the Federal Court, on the grounds that Parliament went against the initial draft submitted by the government." Economic researcher Ammar al-Rubaie says that “the law will solve the crisis,” adding that “slum dwellers will pay the service fees they receive in the form of monthly installments, or they will pay the entire amount, provided that these areas do not affect the urban planning of cities.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie continued, “Most of the slums include plots of land that were controlled by armed factions and were sold to citizens for huge sums. Today, citizens buy and sell housing units in slums for more than $20,000.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie criticized, “a section of the politicians who took possession of lands and set up slums on them in the centers of the Jadiriyah and Karada districts in central Baghdad,” noting that “the prices of housing units in these areas amount to more than 20 thousand dollars.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie called for “the removal of most of these slums, and for allocating housing units within a vertical building to the residents of these slums in return for symbolic sums.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie stressed that “these lands must be returned to the state in order to preserve the city’s population planning.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Rubaie concluded that “the expansion of slum areas will have a direct impact on the people,” expressing regret that “most slum children do not have an opportunity for education amid a scarcity in the number of schools and financial resources.”[/size]
[size=45]And the report went on, "The successive Iraqi governments seemed unable to put a solution to the problem, whose backgrounds are not only social and economic, but also political."[/size]
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