2023-12-27T14:13:53+00:00
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/ On Wednesday, the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Municipalities revealed the details of the new residential cities included in the government program of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani.
Today, Wednesday, Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani announced the launch of work on the New Al-Jawahiri City project in Abu Ghraib District, which covers an area of 7,121 dunums and includes 30,000 diverse housing units, 10,000 serviced residential plots of land, universities, commercial centers, and about 70 schools. .
Ministry spokesman Nabil Al-Saffar told the News Agency, “One of the components of the government program is the initiation of residential cities, and there were five residential cities that were referred to investors and developers, four of which the requirements for referral were completed, which is the Jeweler City, which was announced today by laying the foundation stone, as well as the City of Al-Ghazlani in the city of Mosul, the city of the banks of Karbala in Holy Karbala, and the city of Al-Jinan in Babylon. There was also another city in Anbar for which the referral requirements had not been completed.”
He pointed out that “the government program included the establishment of 15 cities, and a team was formed headed by the Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, and its membership included the mayor of Baghdad, the governor of Baghdad, the head of the National Investment Authority, the head of the Board of Advisors, and the director general of the Department of Regional Development in the governorates, and also the membership of a governor in a residential city.”
Al-Saffar continued, “The allocation and identification of these lands came in cooperation with the relevant governorates, and we are working to alleviate the housing crisis, which constitutes one of the problems that the Iraqi individual suffers from.”
Regarding the new Al-Jawahiri residential city, the Ministry’s spokesman explained that “the number of housing units reached 30,000 housing units, on 7,155 dunums, according to horizontal construction.”
Al-Saffar pointed out that “this project mainly targeted the poor and middle classes and those with limited income.”
He noted that “the issue of residential unit prices in the Al-Jawahiri Complex is not specific, and today we have laid the foundation stone, and that there are conditions for investors not to speculate in prices. There are also controls for not allowing the purchase of more than 1% of the residential units in order to avoid conflict and manipulation of prices.”