The dream of housing is shattered... 3 thousand dollars per square meter in central Baghdad
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Economy News - Baghdad
In the 1970s, the Iraqi government distributed areas of land to citizens, through professional unions and popular organizations, which raised the levels of housing production for the period 1975-1985 (according to the Ministry of Planning) to about 50 thousand housing units annually, with a growth rate exceeding 7. ,0 percent annual rate of growth of the population of Iraq.
But now, the housing crisis has become difficult to solve, as Iraq suffers from a severe shortage of housing units with the high cost of living that the country is witnessing, as many citizens were forced to live in rents amid the difficulty of purchasing housing. With the crisis that erupted over the past years due to the huge number of Iraqi residents and their increase year after year, the price of one residential meter in popular areas reached three thousand US dollars, despite its lack of some basic services.
3.5 million housing units
Many Iraqis believe that the reasons for the rise are due to the great differences that have arisen between the classes of society. The political class, businessmen and those with special degrees are getting richer every day and investing their money in buying real estate inside Iraq.
While many Iraqi citizens suffer from not owning a home, while some of them live in rented homes at prices of no less than 300 US dollars, there is popular criticism of housing policies that are still unable to bridge the gap between supply and demand, and the deficit in the housing sector is still high and estimated at three million. Residential unit, in addition to the lack of serviced residential lands that can be distributed and built.
The Investment Authority, in a previous statement, clarified: “The country needs about four million housing units to solve the housing crisis in Iraq.” She said that “the Authority granted approximately 130 investment licenses during 2021,” noting that “work has begun on many of the stalled projects,” and that “there are 1,800 licenses between fictitious and semi-fictitious, while the number of lagging projects exceeds 500 projects,” while she confirmed that the Authority was born in The period of rampant corruption and reform warriors are present in every sector and field,” stressing that “political pressure continues to obtain investment licenses.” While the Investment Authority grants licenses to build residential complexes without clear details for public opinion about the mechanism for granting these licenses and lands to investors or the conditions it imposes on them. Authority, and it is clear that there are no conditions. The first condition that must be met, consistent with the claim that these complexes are to solve the housing crisis, is that the prices of these units be proportional to the average income of Iraqis and those who do not own housing.
New cities
The Investment Authority reviews, through its official spokesman, Dr. Muthanna Al-Ghanmi, the details of the new residential cities, indicating through a statement followed by (Al-Mada), that the launch of investment opportunities for the new residential cities came after the Iraqi government’s decision to offer them for investment, solve all problems related to land ownership, and begin referring them to companies that will provide The best bids and offers. Al-Ghanmi revealed that these five cities are the first phase, and that the coming weeks will witness the presentation of new investment opportunities for approximately 10 other new residential cities after completing the procedures for inventorying and sorting the lands and resolving ownership disputes between the Ministries of Finance and Municipalities and the Municipality of the Capital.
As for the details of these cities and the number of residential units, Al-Ghanimi says, “All residential cities will include horizontal and vertical residential units, with a total of approximately 240 thousand residential units, as the capacity of the New Al-Jawahiri City in Baghdad is 29 thousand residential units on an area of more than 7 thousand dunams, in When the capacity of the new city of Karbala will reach more than 46 thousand housing units on an area of more than 8,900 dunums.”
Bridging the gap
The number of residents who do not own a home in Iraq is about 25% according to unofficial statistics, and some say it is double this number, if we take the number of slums that spread in Iraq and are inhabited by about 3 million Iraqis, according to statements by officials and representatives, while Iraqis fear government routine procedures and the proximity of... The government has finished preventing them from realizing their dream of obtaining a piece of land.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, speaking to (Al-Mada), says, “There are real trends to address the housing crisis in Iraq and bridge the gap that exists in the sector, and we are talking here about the new residential cities project that began as a first phase in five cities, and then we wait for the rest of the cities.” He stated, “There is a project that includes perhaps 15 residential cities that Iraq will witness in various governorates, and it represents an important shift for the housing sector and contributes to solving a large part of the housing crisis. The cities will be investment and implemented by the private sector.”
Slums
Anna Nikonorov, an activist in the non-governmental organization “NCCI” that implements projects and activities in Iraq, says that in Baghdad governorate there is slum housing equivalent to a third of all slums in the rest of Iraq’s governorates, that is, 125 slum areas out of 380, with an estimated number of residents. With 483,148 people. 53 percent of these lands on which slums were built belong to the Ministry of Finance, 26 percent to the Ministry of Defense, 7 percent to the Baghdad Municipality, 4 percent to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and 2 percent to each of the Ministries of Agriculture, Transport, and Education.
According to the questionnaire of the same organization, which Al-Mada reviewed, “most of the informal housing is not connected to the services provided by the government, such as drinking water, sanitation, and schools.” The questionnaire showed that 68 percent of the residents of slum areas in Iraq, and 80 percent of the same segment in Baghdad, do not want to return to their original residential areas.
While the Ministry of Housing attributes the spread of informal housing to the problem of internal displacement that escalated as a result of sectarian tension in 2006 and 2007, the questionnaire confirms that only 5 to 10 percent of these residents are internally displaced.
Destruction of agricultural lands
As for Dr. Amer Al-Jawahiri, he says: “Real estate prices began rising about 20 years ago, and officials repeat that there is a need for two and a half million to three million housing units, and there is an annual increase in population of the order of one million and one hundred thousand people, and the demand is accelerating very quickly for housing units and in All levels, from the rich to the poor to the very rich.” Al-Jawahiri explains, “The congestion in demand for housing units and the degree of its impact on congestion for cars and others, the environment, and pressure on service systems and infrastructure, and these are dire consequences in all areas.”
He pointed out that “the very important and large plots in Baghdad were implemented in the form of residential complexes and became for the benefit of the upper class and the rich, and the projects that concern the lower-middle and poor groups do not exist,” noting that “previous promises turned out to be just ink on paper.”
He pointed out that “the resort to agricultural land has become faster and there has been a depletion of agricultural land because it is cheaper, but this deprivation affects temperatures, increased drought, and a decrease in the proportion of orchards and agricultural land, so that this depredation continues towards all governorates.” He explained that “the solutions are not by issuing a law and pricing the lands, which leads to... Counterproductive results. The solutions are to quickly distribute land to citizens, and on the condition that land plans be drawn up and have schools, civil defense centers, service areas, and all the requirements of cities.” One thousand housing units, urgently to reach a point where we can talk about equal housing opportunities and eliminating slums. However, experts believe that Iraq needs about seven million new housing units to meet the need, if the average number of members per family is considered to be four people.
Source: Al Mada newspaper
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