Riyadh-Amlak
The Ministry of Housing was able to succeed in obtaining about a third of the land it needs, noting that some of them are far from the urban area and services, which costs the state a lot in order to deliver services.
In its annual report submitted to the Shura Council after its transformation from a body to a ministry, the Ministry of Housing described the issues, challenges and obstacles it faces, emphasizing that it is still in the stage of building administrative and technical capacities. The ministry complains of encroachments on some of the lands and sites allocated for its projects in addition to their intersection with some services, and to address the delay in approving some plans and designs for those concerned authorities, the ministry requests to implement what it plans and designs without the need for approval from the concerned authorities.

According to the ministry's report, one of the most prominent challenges is the lack of administrative and technical expertise, as most of its employees have less than five years of experience and do not have enough experience to manage large projects, and the ministry lacks sufficient leadership for senior positions.
The Ministry has cooperated with some government agencies by assigning a number of their employees with experience to work with ”Housing” outside the official working hours. Among the challenges and obstacles revealed in the ministry's report is the leakage of a number of technical cadres to other sectors with good financial benefits, due to the transfer of employees in the Housing Authority to the ministry and the application of the civil service system and its regulations, and the ministry is currently coordinating with the service to give it the authority to fill positions at the seventh rank and below to have the opportunity to test outstanding competencies to fill those positions.

The Ministry of Housing revealed in its report that it is struggling with the contractors implementing the current projects due to their obvious shortage of human and administrative resources and equipment despite their high rating that qualifies them theoretically to implement such projects, but the reality of the situation shows that many of them are not as capable and efficient to implement the projects as many of them have achieved low completion rates compared to the timetables.
The report emphasized that the Ministry did not stand idly by in the face of this challenge and others, so it followed up closely with government agencies related to housing projects to end the obstacles facing the projects, and it is also working to qualify contractors itself and not just municipal affairs classification, and worked to qualify international companies capable of completing large projects.
Not far from that, the ministry explained that it does not take advantage of foreign companies with high efficiency due to the lack of systems that allow this, such as the classification required by the Government Tenders and Procurement System and the long time it takes for companies to obtain it.