The report of the Shura Council's Housing Committee, which is expected to be discussed by the Council soon, carried a number of recommendations for the Ministry of Housing to address the shortcomings in performance over the past years, expressing its dissatisfaction with the final outcome of the Ministry's achievements, which amounted to only 3090 housing units.

The Ministry's performance deserves a long reflection.

AThe ministry's performance deserves a long pause for reflection

<The Housing and Public Services Committee explained in its study of the ministry's report during the past year 35-1436 AH that since the issuance of the order of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on the thirteenth of Rabi'II 1432 to build 500 thousand housing units throughout the Kingdom and the allocation of about 260 thousand million riyals in the same period in addition to providing the ministry with a thousand jobs and assigning municipal affairs to hand over all lands ready for housing to the Ministry of Housing, only 3090 housing units were delivered to citizens, and the report said that the ministry's performance deserves a long pause for reflection.The report pointed to the great support that the ministry found from the state, where it provides financial support, land and the enactment of new legislation that would help the ministry achieve its goals.

Shura Council Processes

The report showed that the Shura Council addressed in its resolutions on the ministry's previous reports many of the basic issues that end the obstacles, noting that the decision of the white land fee system along with previous resolutions did not see an impact to address the challenges in the axes within the most prominent issues, namely the eligibility list, land, human resources, contractor issues, cost bearing, data hall and administrative aspects.

The report reiterates the great responsibility of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to address the challenges in the areas of entitlement, land, human resources, contractor issues, cost bearing, data hall and administrative aspects. <The report reiterates the great responsibility of the ministry to distribute ready-to-house land, stressing that the current centralized centralized system and branches do not cover enough areas to benefit all parts of the Kingdom. The report counted 133,905 lands under design procedures, in addition to 24,461 others under award, more than 57,000 infrastructures and 13,823 housing units under implementation.

Housing Committee Recommendations

In its report, the Shura Council's Housing Committee made a number of recommendations to the Ministry of Housing, including preparing a timetable showing the realization of the quantitative target in the tenth development plan on an annual basis, in light of the new strategy to be produced by the ministry and estimating the needs of the development plan.

<The Services Committee also recommended assigning land development to real estate developers in addition to planning and construction within partnership projects with the private sector within the framework of the concept of comprehensive development. <The Shura Specialized Committee recommended that the Ministry coordinate with the relevant authorities to prepare a quarterly housing information database that is available to all to include sales, prices and vacancies in the housing sector, noting that accurate information contributes to reducing the risk of investment in the sector. The recommendations of the housing report called for clarifying and disclosing the financial obligations that will be incurred by housing beneficiaries for any of its products, including defining the economic dimensions that families of different categories will face in the ownership of housing, including the first payment and then the various installments.