Development ministry builds 5,000 houses for underprivileged families

AMMAN — The Social Development Ministry has provided some 5,000 houses for underprivileged families since the start of its programme, launched by a Royal initiative in 2003, Director of Buildings and Housing at the ministry Ali Abdulhafeth said on Wednesday.

In a ministry statement sent to The Jordan Times, Abdulhafeth said that the ministry builds, buys and renovates 120 to 300 residences for underprivileged families annually, depending on the programme's available resources.

He noted that the ministry periodically checks on the conditions of the beneficiary families, and that after a recent survey, some 300 residences were retrieved from families who no longer met the programme's conditions and were redistributed to families in greater need of them.