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Morocco is represented at this annual meeting, which aims to promote understanding and promotion of the major issues linked to affordable housing and which will continue until May 18, by the chairman of the board of directors of the Al Omrane group, Badr Kanouni, who serves as vice-president of the RHF.
Chairing a panel held under the theme “Guarantee a sufficient and secure supply of land and housing” and in which the Director General of the Société Nationale Immobilière du Gabon, Hermann Kamonomono and the President of the Federation of Public Housing Offices participated, Marcel Rogemont, Mr. Kanouni underlined that Morocco has succeeded in consolidating its housing and decent housing policy by putting in place real levers which have contributed significantly to reducing the housing deficit, to fighting against unsanitary housing and to develop new urban centers and new towns which provide integrated responses to the different needs expressed by the territories (housing, economic activities, local facilities, etc.).
These levers have made it possible to contribute to improving the living and living conditions of more than 8.5 million inhabitants, said the chairman of the board of directors of the Al Omrane group.
In this regard, Mr. Kanouni indicated that among these levers are the creation of the Housing and Urban Integration Solidarity Fund and the strengthening of its financial resources making it possible to make a financial contribution to various public programs and the mobilization of public land and the implementation new urban centers and new towns.
It also involves the establishment of tax incentives to promote social housing and housing with low real estate value, assistance to buyers, the creation of guarantee funds to broaden the possibilities of access to bank credit to the fringes. deprived and the creation of a national public operator with strong regional and local roots (Al Omrane) by bringing together all public operators in the sector guaranteeing the coherence of State action and the execution of its priorities and strategic choices on the national territory.
“Morocco has not only set up a fund dedicated to housing on the basis of the cement tax but there has been a mobilization of public land,” he said, noting that there is also had systems dedicated to the private sector.
Highlighting the positive results that have been recorded as part of this strategy, Mr. Kanouni stressed that all the State policies launched under the leadership of HM the King have made it possible, among other things, to reduce the deficit 1,200,000 housing units recorded at the beginning of the 2000s to less than 400,000 today and at the same time providing a response to the additional annual need.
Regarding the fight against unsanitary housing, he said that the results achieved by Morocco have been praised on several occasions, estimating that the fact of having taken 1,800,000 Moroccans out of the slums who live today in decent and acceptable conditions is a highly commended achievement.
This panel was held in the presence of the president of the Habitat and Francophonie Network, Vincent Sciarra, the Director General of the Habitat Bank of Senegal, Bocar Sy, the ambassador of HM the King to Senegal, Hassan Naciri, as well as as representatives of member countries and international housing stakeholders.
Organized in partnership in particular with the Banque de l’Habitat du Senegal, the Caisse des Dépôts & de Consignation du Senegal, this 55th Conference brings together many social housing stakeholders from the French-speaking area in order to promote and share the different expertise in accelerating new construction, reviving unsuitable and/or deficient buildings and housing, in a context of population mobility and accelerated urbanization.
Created in 1987 with the support of the Caisse des Dépôts and the Union des Hlm, the Réseau Habitat et Francophonie (RHF) brings together more than 50 social and affordable housing stakeholders and authorities in the French-speaking and Francophile space.
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