Improving The Housing Delivery System In Erbil

Acute infrastructure problems coupled with dilapidated housing conditions have created slum-like conditions in some pockets of the cities in the KRG, in which many poor households occupy substandard housing vulnerable to structural breakdown, and are lacking basic services and security of tenure. In Erbil City, urgent measures are needed to accelerate the supply of housing for the poor to meet the growing demand. The KRG introduced a form of public private partnership for residential development whereby large pieces of land were granted to private developers to build gated communities. The Government is also committed to expand infrastructure networks such as water supply, sanitation, access roads and electricity. However, as prices charged by private developers are beyond the means of the poor, many lower income households are left with no option but to reside in overcrowded conditions as tenants or illegal occupiers in deteriorated areas.