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Saudi Arabia starts initial work for 500,000 housing plan

05 Sep 2012

(MENAFN) A new report released by CB Richard Ellis Bahrain (CBRE Bahrain) said that Saudi Arabia has started breaking ground for the first batch of a massive low-income housing plan announced early this year, Saudi Gazette reported.

Saudi Arabia plans to spend USD67 billion on building half a million housing units to meet the lower-income population needs.

A total of 32 square kilometers of housing units in the Kingdom is currently being masterplanned, according to a research note released by CBRE Bahrain.

Government policy through 2012 remains focused on infrastructure and social programs, the report added.

The Kingdom needs to solve a chronic housing shortage for a population that’s quadrupled in size in four decades to 28.4 million in 2011.

The government needs to build 1.25 million new homes by 2014, according to its development plan.

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