Transport and Urban Development Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash announced that 100,000 residential units will be handed over to the applicants in the cities and villages throughout the country during Government Week (starting on August 24).Last week, the minister announced that 1.55 million units of the National Housing Movement plan are under construction across the country.He said that the government is facilitating the provision of land to mass builders that are participating in this plan.“In the house building sector, in order to accelerate and facilitate the construction of housing units, we need more participation of the private sector and mass builders,” he said.Earlier in June, Bazrpash said that 3,000 hectares of land have been allocated to the National Housing Movement so far.National Housing Movement to construct four million housing units in four years is one of the major plans of the current government in the housing sector.According to the plan, out of these four million residential units, 3.2 million units will be constructed in cities and 800,000 units in villages, some of these units are currently being constructed after providing lands and preparing the necessary conditions.After National Housing Action Plan (started in 2018), National Housing Movement is the government’s second major program to provide affordable housing units for the low-income classes.The operation for the construction of 209,212 residential units of the National Housing Movement began in February 2022.The ceremony to begin the mentioned operation and also to launch some development projects in the housing sector was attended by former Transport and Urban Development Minister Rostam Qasemi.Also, in July 2022, the minister inaugurated a project for the construction of the first group of affordable housing units for laborers under the framework of the National Housing Movement. (ICE TEHERAN)

Fonte notizia: Tehran Times