MP criticizes officials’ performance in addressing housing crisis

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Parliamentary Services Committee attributed the housing crisis in Iraq to the lack of the financial allocations from the general budgets, noting that Iraq needs a large number of residential units where there are more than two millions Iraqi families do not have a suitable housing.

The head of the Committee, Vian Dakhil told IraqiNews.com “A large part of the mud-based houses in Baghdad and most of the Iraqi provinces are based on squatter lands out of the original design of the cities.”

“Moreover, the Government did not distribute land pieces on citizens whether employees or non-employees since 1982,” she added.