The Ministry of Housing said that the "Housing Committee" authorized to discuss housing requests for humanitarian and urgent cases had discussed 338 cases listed on the committee's lists during the first quarter of this year, informing that the committee took decisions to provide urgent housing solutions to 210 humanitarian cases after studying all aspects of the case from reports. Medical field visits and conducting social research for each application separately.
The Ministry stated that the number of meetings held by the committee during the first quarter of 2021 reached 21 at a rate of two meetings per week, reviewing some of the committee’s statistics, as it reported that the number of cases for which urgent housing solutions were approved reached 210 cases at a rate of approximately 62% of The total number of cases brought before the committee.
The Ministry added that the response to 119 requests submitted to the committee has been rejected by 28%, due to the lack of compliance with the criteria for humanitarian or urgent cases, while 9 requests of 10% are subject to further studies and social research and the completion of the required documents in preparation for presentation to the committee and decision-making. the appropriate.
In the context of concern for the interest of citizens and meeting urgent and humanitarian requests without delay, and in line with the precautionary measures to combat the "Corona" virus, the Ministry of Housing received a number of citizens to conduct personal interviews "remotely", as they required further study and clarification.
“Housing” clarified that the cases that are presented to the committee are transferred by the Notes and Complaints Fund (at your command), in addition to the complaints and inquiries unit at the Customer Service Center, in addition to the cases that are transferred from the Housing Services Department, indicating that the transfer of these cases comes After a procedure related to classifying cases of housing applications submitted to those bodies, confirming that the committee notifies the concerned citizen and the relevant authorities of the decisions taken by the committee in the subject of research or discussion.
The Ministry indicated that the “Housing Committee” is concerned with studying the requests for exemption, postponement and reduction that are submitted by the beneficiaries of the various housing projects, such as housing financing, housing units and apartments ownership services, and the service of temporary apartments. The request to obtain housing services or the non-acceptance of the request, or the denial of applying for housing services.
The committee is also responsible for tracking cases of non-registration of beneficiaries under the conditions under which they were granted the right to benefit from the housing service, as well as looking into cases that require correcting the legal status of benefiting from the housing service, and setting the necessary standards to deal with repeated cases.
The housing committee’s system stipulates that the committee study the requests referred to it and the documents, certificates and supporting documents thereof to issue the recommendations it deems appropriate in this regard, provided that among the committee’s powers is to invite whomever it deems to be of those with expertise and competence in its field of work to attend its meetings without having the right Vote.
