The housing crisis and housing projects in Iraq after 2003

Abstract

Housing is considered one of the basic necessities in the lives of individuals, as its importance comes among life priorities. Due to the large and rapid population increase that occurred in recent decades and the accompanying large-scale migration from rural areas to city centers, which led to an increased demand for housing units and a limited supply, which created a gap between supply and demand for housing, and the lack of distribution of land over Individuals within society, in addition to the decrease in financial investment allocations directed to investment in residential projects as a result of the circumstances and wars that Iraq has experienced during recent decades, has led to an expansion of the gap between supply and demand for housing. From here, the housing problem emerged in Iraq and began to become more complex due to weak financing policies and the scarcity of financial resources allocated to the housing sector, which generates weak investment in the housing sector, whether by the public sector or by the private sector.