As age and stress increase, so does the suffering of the citizen in the journey of his dream of owning a home, and the suffering increases even more with retirement age for those over 50 years old, when banks reject their requests for comfortable housing financing.
As age increases and stress increases, so does the suffering of the citizen in the journey of his dream of owning a home.
Do our institutions reward the citizen who spent the flower of his youth in the service of the country and gave it the juice of his efforts and experiences with this negligence?
And instead of granting him his right to housing, do we make him spend the rest of his life in the worries of thinking about buying a house to house him and his family?
Why all this unfairness at a time when the state itself has provided all the possibilities for the citizen to have a secure housing,
Why this unfairness?
And who is responsible for this 50-year-old pensioner who is paralyzed by circumstances and has lost his strength between the worries of daily living and the illusion of owning a home not for himself but for his children and their acceptance?
The suffering experienced by the citizen as a result of his firm desire for housing is the result of a malfunction in strategic planning by not providing housing units suitable for his family and his financial capabilities, and even the existing supply is not commensurate with the citizen's demand; either because its specifications do not match his desires, or because of the high prices that have become unaffordable, and even the projects announced by the Ministry of Housing - which may be appropriate in prices - have been devoured by the many beneficiaries" requests However, the many requests of beneficiaries have devoured them so that they did not participate in the Housing Expo held in Dhahran recently due to the closure of applications and waiting lists, which confirms the market's thirst for such projects, and if the ministry would design a detailed study on the desires of each age group so that those who are of retirement age are not surprised by a housing unit with limited rooms that are not compatible with the lives of their sons and daughters who have reached an age that gives them privacy at home, such a category cannot be equal to the desires of the newly formed family categories.
We hope that the competent authorities will look for advanced solutions; especially since 70% of Saudi families prefer to obtain independent ready-made housing units - according to the Sakani program report for February this year.
Integrating efforts to facilitate home ownership and housing finance
Will the efforts in the housing sector be integrated starting with:
Will the efforts in the housing sector be integrated starting with:
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and real estate developers
and cooperative societies
Charitable associations
and endowments
in working as a single system in the service of the low-income citizen who is the only and last victim of instability,
in working as a single system in the service of the low-income citizen
and provide health, education, and daily shopping services in new projects, so that they are attractive to the new housing entitlement
.
This is the case of a retired citizen who needs safe housing now and not tomorrow. Your Excellency, the situation is in your hands.
Abdulaziz Al-Issa
Editor-in-Chief
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