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Squatter settlements: resettlement of 270 families next to Tizi-Ouzou


NAU - Agencies - publié le Friday, December 16th à 14:09 modifié le Saturday, December 17th - 10:44

270 families belonging to several municipalities in the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, who are living in precarious housing, will be relocated, "no later than the first quarter of 2012," the Office of Promotion and Property Management (OPGI) stated.



Tizi Ouzou
Tizi Ouzou
This lot of homes, made under an overall quota of 4,400 units allocated to the wilaya under its program of gradual resorption of makeshift housing (RPHP), "will be awarded to a recipient upon notification, in January, to the relevant committees, "said the person in  charge of project management at the developer, stating that the assignment of these units, delivered over a long time," has been slow because of non-completion of primary and secondary servicing, falling to other sectors. " APS reports.

The beneficiaries of these homes are the communes  Iferhounene (100 units) of Illoula Oumalou (50), Aït Chaffe (40), Beni Yenni (40), Tirmitine (30) and Ait Yahia Moussa (10),  he said.

The same source said that for a batch of 3,199 units under construction, the owner, in this case OPGI, provides for the receipt, in the year 2012,  of 594 units broken down in  the various localities of the wilaya, while the rest should be completed in 2013.

"The scarcity of buildable public land and  the opposition of residents to available housing, the relocation projects necessitated by balancing the distribution of different programs across regions, and the shortage of qualified workers and the distance from sources of supply of aggregate sites "are are causing delays in the implementation of the program RPHP, since 2008 through out the wilaya, it was explained to the OPGI.

The launch, under that same program,  of 1,201 other dwellings to eradicate informal settlements, will take place in 2012 "from distribution by the competent committee of the wilaya for Communes," he said.

A census carried out in 2007 by the Directorate for Planning and Construction (DUC) reported a total of 3,612 dwellings spread over more than 104 sites from 18 daïras of the 21 that make up the province of Tizi Ouzou.

In July 2011a
United Nations housing expert called on the Algerian Government to democratize its housing policies, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR ).

Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, said that although the Algerian Government should be commended for building social housing, recent street demonstrations against the beneficiary lists “are the direct consequence of the lack of citizens’ participation in the process of establishing the criteria of attribution as well as the scope of making decisions left to the administration.”

Ms. Rolnik speaking at the end of a visit to Algeria said: “Democratizing housing policies, opening ground to the direct participation of citizens and civil society organizations in their planning and implementation, could represent an important step in the current framework of reforms promised by the Government.”

OHCHR said that in her preliminary conclusions at the end of her 11-day mission, the Special Rapporteur also “pointed out the limitations of a policy based only on the offer of new housing units while there is a range of different housing needs in the country.”

In this context, she reminded the Government of its obligation to protect the persons facing forced evictions and called on the authorities to “progressively ameliorate the conditions of living in unplanned settlements, as part of the need to diversify housing policies and to integrate them in a general framework of habitat,” the agency said.






           


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