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Practical Procedures to make the Housing and Public Utility
Policy a success
The Jamhirya took measures to improve services extended to the
citizen in the following manner:
A) Real estate loaning through the Saving and Real
Estate Investment Bank and commercial banks;
B) Establish public companies to invest in housing;
C) State appropriations for public housing;
Within this framework, the following achievements were
demonstrated:
- The number of existing units implemented in previous stages is
estimated according to 2006 census at 951402;
- Expenditures allocated for housing projects and utilities in
different areas for the past period have reached approximately
4.160 billion dinars. Implementation processes were conducted
by the General Organization for Housing and Utilities, the
Housing and Utility Project Implementation Agency, Saving
and Real Estate Investment Bank, the Agrarian Bank (AgoHousing) and the Municipality Management and Development
Organ.
- In the field of utilities, a number of wastewater treatment
stations were installed in addition to more than 7500 km long
sanitary drainage networks. Several wastewater and rainfall
pumping stations were constructed.
- Several water supply systems were applied with lengths of
water supply networks and their main and sub-lines reaching
more than 35 thousand kms, and more than 1000 underground
and elevated water tanks, in addition to sea water desalination
and underground water units to provide drinking water to
citizens in all cities and villages of the Great Jamhirya.
- Projects of integrated utilities covering 41 cities in different
administrative divisions and others of basic utilities for the
remaining cities and compounds were implemented including: