Farce and furious: housing project event slides into chaos
Hiyaa, meaning shelter, was launched with fireworks at a groundbreaking ceremony last November. It involves the construction of 36 towers with apartments to house 80,000 people.
06 May 2018, 9:00 AM
An event for a flagship government housing project descended into farce on Sunday as application forms for the flats ran out in 30 minutes, the website crashed due to demand and police shut the door in people’s faces.
Hiyaa (shelter) was launched with fireworks at a groundbreaking ceremony last November. It involves the construction of 36 towers with apartments to house 80,000 people, according to the President’s Office.
The housing ministry opened up the application process for more than 7,000 Hiyaa flats and pledged that Sunday’s event, held in the capital, would have no queues and that the forms would be on its website.
Housing Minister Mohamed Muizzu had earlier in the day explained the categories for the affordable housing forms and said the process had been made as easy as possible.
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