FIGHT AGAINST UNSANITARY HOUSING: 16,300 BENEFICIARY HOUSEHOLDS
Unsanitary housing
The minister of Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri has announced that as part of her fight against unsanitary living, an estimated 16300 families benefit by improving their housing, at a median at the time of the mandate for the government in place today.
Responding to an orally-posted question by an oral question from the Authenticity and Modernity group in the House of Representatives, the Minister explained that this number is an boost by 163% when compared to the time period between 2018 and 2021 in which improvement of living conditions affecting housing affected about 6.200 households every year.
The report also revealed the reduction of 35% the urbanization of shanty towns and highlighted the significant efforts taken by her department, working along with officials from the Ministry of the Interior, in order to help speed the removal of these slumsy regions. The collaboration has made it feasible for the department for her department to fulfil “very positive” outcome in this field.
El Mansouri added that 22 549 families are currently relocated within the Province of Skhirat-Temara in addition to stating the Greater Casablanca region represents more than half people who are beneficiaries of the program to fight shantytowns.
Concerning the objectives of the ministry for 2024-2028 The minister presented an ambitious plan for eliminating unsafe housing. The plan takes an approach that is innovative, such as the use of homes or social housing that are not worth more than 300,000 dirhams (including costs) to rehouse families in need.
The program also allows for stronger collaboration with the private sector and the real estate market being re-opened for real estate developers within the context of requests for Expressions of Interest. Additionally, a direct home assistance program has been put in order to offer a funding method to speed up the renovation of unsanitary homes.
In response to a query on the complexities of construction procedures and investment dossiers The minister clarified the fact that cities issue opinions in line with law and documents on urban planning currently in use.
Concerning the modifications to plans, El Mansouri stated the existence of two circulars made to look over the major projects that had not received a favorable opinions had been given. It was able to evaluate 15,988 projects in the period between November 2021 and October 2024. Of these, 4382 projects were approved. This is an investment total of 40.64 billion dirhams (MMDH).