Her Excellency Mrs. Amna bint Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, Minister of Housing and Urban Planning, confirmed that the Cabinet of Ministers had approved a draft resolution on housing regulatory measures. in order to further achieve the benefit of citizens benefiting from housing services, These include eliminating the requirement that a wife does not use a property through inheritance to benefit from housing services and merely review the requirements for monthly income while granting the citizen's certificate of candidacy rather than on allocation; The aim is to ensure the continuity of housing demand by not affecting housing standards met by the head of the family in the case of the wife's inheritance property, as well as to ensure the provision of housing to different groups in society.
Al-Rumaihi noted that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning had begun to take procedural steps to issue ministerial decisions to introduce requirements to ensure the beginning of the application of the new standards, noting that this was in response to the joint coordination between the legislative and executive authorities, after examining several cases, as well as in line with citizens' proposals received by the Ministry through the National System of Proposals and Complaints "Communicate", or through the Customer Service Center as well as the offices of Deputy H.E. and through various channels of communication.
Minister Al-Rumaihi also appreciated the approval by the Council of Ministers of the proposal to organize the nomination certificates to benefit from the acquisition services by merely reviewing the requirements for monthly income before granting the citizen a certificate of nomination, which aims to consider the certificate as a preliminary document for the allocation phase without the applicant being affected by the subsequent change of the monthly income criteria.
In the same context, the Minister of Housing and Urban Planning noted that the regulation of the nomination certificates includes in his second part of the amendment the failure to consider the excess of 21 years of age for children included in the application if the applicant receives category II. (a widower/divorcee with minor children) on the certificate of nomination, where the candidate's application will not be transferred to a child in this case, in an effort by the Ministry to provide housing for such cases.
The Minister of Housing and Urban Planning stressed that these amendments to the provisions of Decree No. 909 of 2015 on the housing system are primarily aimed at providing housing for Bahraini families and accommodating different groups and situations of society.
Minister Al-Rumaihi explained that these amendments will directly contribute to the improvement of housing services provided to citizens, noting that the Ministry will spare no effort to continue to provide further programmes and amendments that will respond to citizens' proposals and legislative power.
