There are 300,000 squatters in Baghdad
The Baghdad Municipality or Amanat al-Asima says there are more than 300,000 squatters in the Iraqi capital and at least 300,000 new housing units are needed to house them.
Abdulhakim Abdulzahra, the municipality’s spokesperson, said the construction of 300,000 housing units for Baghdad squatters should be completed in five years.
Iraqi faces a severe housing crisis and needs are estimated at 3 million units.
Abdulzahra said large-scale housing projects were to start in Baghdad soon. He cited Sadr City project which calls for the building of a modern city to change the face of the current run-down township.
He said Baghdad Municipality was one of several authorities working to solve the housing crisis in the capital.
Other ministries, like housing and reconstruction, are also engaged in housing projects, he said.
“The government is determined to rid Iraqi cities of squatters by building more than 2.5 million housing units in the next five years,” he said.
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