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Iraq has approved a project to build a new residential city within a post-war scheme designed to tackle a festering housing crisis, local newspapers said on Sunday.
“Al-Faluja City” is based in the Western Al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq’s largest province, and comprises over 98,000 units housing nearly 588,000 people, they said.
Iraq’s Construction and Housing Minister Nazneen Woso endorsed designs for the project that will be spread over an area of around 75 sq km, Al-Iqtisad News and other Iraqi publications reported.
“The city will include nearly 98,160 units on horizontal and vertical basis..it is located near Al-Habbaniya Tourism City,” the Minister said.
OPEC member Iraq has been locked in a massive post-war rebuilding programme that covers oil, housing, power and other sectors.
(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)