The Developmental Housing Initiative, in collaboration with a global consulting firm, announced details of the prototype for the MOH Advanced Analytics Tool (MOHAAT), an advanced technical tool that visualizes and accurately presents data, helping to improve decision-making regarding on-demand housing investment in each region, It also monitors the actual spatial needs of beneficiaries, drawing on the Ministry of Housing’s (Iskan) beneficiary databases, available land data, and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development’s social security beneficiary databases.
The prototype includes a comprehensive overview of beneficiaries’ circumstances and the locations of the units they currently occupy, as well as the locations of current and future target projects, the number of units required, and the beneficiary segments for each project in terms of income level and the size and type of units needed. It also identifies suitable land parcels for the project based on the number and types of units.
Abdullah bin Muhsin Al-Nimri, General Supervisor of Developmental Housing, explained that this tool is one of the early outcomes of the Developmental Housing Initiative’s strategy and is among the most important resources needed to achieve the remaining objectives, as it helps identify priorities and strategic projects for the Developmental Housing Initiative based on digitally verified information derived from the analysis of documented data. Furthermore, the Ministry is working within the developmental housing sector to leverage all available technologies.
Al-Nimri added that the team will work to expand the data available on the platform to include databases of services located near communities of potential beneficiaries, such as health and educational services, The platform’s service offering will also be enhanced by providing dedicated accounts for the Ministry’s partners from the nonprofit sector, to strengthen collaboration with them in identifying, selecting, and implementing development projects, and to keep them informed of the completion rates of joint projects targeting social security beneficiaries.
It is worth noting that this step is part of the Ministry’s efforts to achieve its strategic objectives of supporting supply and enabling demand, facilitating citizens’ access to adequate housing, and serving all segments of society, and in pursuit of the provisions of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 regarding creating the necessary environment for the nonprofit sector and enabling it to increase its contribution to non-oil GDP from less than 1% to 5%, so that it becomes more effective in the housing sector, research, social programs, and cultural events.
