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Categories revealed for 7,000 social housing flats

Housing Minister Muizz also revealed plans to vacate 256 households from the capital under the ambitious social housing project.

26 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
Categories for awarding 7,000 flats under an ambitious social housing project have been revealed with applications due to open in two weeks.
Briefing the press on Sunday, Housing Minister Dr Mohamed Muizz said successful applicants will be chosen by August following an evaluation process, assuring that prices will be affordable.

1,000 flats for civil servants

1,000 flats for married couples aged 18 to 40

1,000 flats for Malé residents

1,044 flats for Malé residents under the municipality registry

625 flats for teachers

475 flats for doctors and nurses

400 flats for single mothers

300 flats each for the police and military

300 flats for those who made down-payments under the scrapped Gulhifalhu project and those unable to secure loans for flats built in Malé by a subsidiary of India’s Tata Group

256 flats for poor families from the Maafanu West constituency in the capital

200 flats for families with disabled persons

Providing housing for youth and newly-weds was a campaign pledge of President Abdulla Yameen, who aims to resettle 80,000 people in new apartment complexes in Hulhumalé, a reclaimed island near the capital being developed as an urban centre.

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