31.01.13
The government has signed agreements with some 600 contractors on resuming work on housing units and related construction works.

Speaking at the government press conference yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, the Minister of Housing and Utilities, Ali Hassan Al-Sharif, said that the go-aheads had been signed after the contracts had been re-evaluated by the Commission of Twenty which had investigated their propriety. Fifty percent of bills was being paid and administrative problems settled, he added.

As a result of 60,000 housing units would be completed in the near future. A further 6,500 prefabricated houses would be constructed in a number of towns across the country by the end of the year. Compensation was also continuing to be paid to individuals whose homes had been damaged or destroyed during the revolution, the minister added.