| ‘Private sector must play active role in building homes for people’ |
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 26, (KUNA): Kuwaiti Minister of State for Housing and Development Affairs Moudhi Al-Humoud stressed here Monday the significance of genuine partnership between the Public Authority for Housing Care (PAHC) and the private sector over housing projects.
The PAHC has been seeking to find effective partnership with the private sector in order to provide appropriate housing care services, the minister said in a PAHC workshop at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The workshop aimed at discussing ways to involve the private sector in bankrolling and developing housing projects in the country.
In spite of the PAHC’s adequate potential, human capabilities are limited and the current methods are unable to cope with the present steady rise in housing orders, thus necessitating innovative approaches based on partnership between both public and private sectors, she said.
There are some legal obstacles denying the PAHC full freedom to boost cooperation with the private sector, the minister blasted.
The PAHC offers proposals to overhaul relevant laws, she noted, hoping that the workshop would be a springboard for cooperation between both public and private sectors.
Echoing the minister’s views, Ali Al-Ghanim, Chairman of the Chamber, believed that the current circumstances, including budget retrenchment, required more active role by the private sector in housing projects.
Although the private sector had a great role in public construction projects in the seventies and eighties, it lost its way in the nineties, he lamented.
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27/01/2009 |
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