Demonstrations in Algiers against a re-housing program
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ALGIERS- Incidents opposed Saturday and Sunday in several neighborhoods in the suburbs of Algiers police to protesters demanding better housing, we learnt Monday from inhabitants.
- Hundreds of young people in the neighborhood of Les Palmiers, consisting of informal settlements in the southern suburbs of Algiers, clashed on Sunday security forces with stones and blocked for several hours traffic on a road.
- They were protesting against their "exclusion" from the list of beneficiaries of housing for families living in precarious housing, sources said. Similar incidents had taken place the previous day in the neighborhood, residents have said.
- In the district of Baraki, a dozen miles southeast of Algiers, clashes have also opposed Sunday police to protesters who blocked roads to protest against the conditions of social housing allocation.
- The Director of Housing in the province of Algiers Mohamed Smail said to APS a relocation program was launched Sunday in Algiers. It covers some 1,600 families living in slums and cottages located in the capital after the devastating earthquake of May 2003, he said.
- The allocation of social housing causes regular events in Algeria, especially when couples have great difficulty in finding housing in particular because of the demographics that the population has tripled since independence in 1962, bringing to 35 million inhabitants.
- Algeria, which has 553,000 precarious homes means to relocate all families living in slums and houses built in the south of the country with “toub” (bricks made of clay and straw), according to the Minister of Housing Nouredine Moussa.
- 70,000 dwellings would be constructed in 2010 to relocate families living in precarious housing within the five year plan 2010-2014, which envisages the construction of a million homes in total.
- Ennaharonline/ M. O.
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