Kuwait's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of State for Development and Housing Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Sabah said here Monday Kuwait was planning to provide over 70,000 housing units by 2015.
In a speech marking the Arab Housing Day, the minister said Kuwait's Public Authority for Housing Care (PAHC) would carry out relevant projects in new housing cities.
The PAHC has set out ambitious plans for housing projects through a carefully timetabled strategic vision, he said.
The PAHC's plans run compatible with development ambitions and expectations for providing houses to citizens as per world specifications and criteria, he said, adding that the new plans aimed to adopt unprecedented housing methods and mechanisms in the implementation of housing projects.
The authority wishes more cooperation from both legislative and executive authorities as well as other state agencies involved for notching up a quantum shift in the country's housing development, he added.
The minister expected that the private sector's involvement in such projects would lead to providing suitable housing through modern, bald, swift and carefully knitted visions.
It would also lead to recovery in the housing sector, especially building industry, and easing out financial and administrative burdens on the state, he pointed out.
Furthermore, the PAHC is seeking to provide environmentally friendly housing by putting the suburban cooling system in place in a bid to overcome power shortage problems and to develop energy uses, he said.
This system will save 45 percent of total energy used in air-conditioning, constituting a quantum shift in energy conservancy, he noted.
The Arab Housing Day festival is supervised by the Council of Arab Ministers of Housing under the umbrella of the Arab League.

 

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