New formula for earthquake housing from Minister Özhaseki

Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Mehmet Özhaseki stated that they are working on various formulas to accelerate the construction of earthquake victim housing and that they will present these to President Erdoğan at the cabinet meeting. Minister of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change Mehmet Özhaseki made statements regarding the construction of permanent housing in the earthquake zone. In his written statement, Özhaseki emphasized that the construction of temporary shelters and workplaces continues in 11 cities affected by the earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, while the construction of permanent housing continues rapidly. Özhaseki, who drew attention to the fact that 14 million people were affected by the earthquake, noted the following: "We have around 100 districts, nearly 1000 villages and the number of collapsed buildings, I got the figures again yesterday because there are objections, there are court decisions, they can change from time to time, 680 thousand houses were destroyed. 170 thousand workplaces, warehouses, barns, single-storey village houses were destroyed. In other words, there are 850 thousand houses and workplaces that we have to build. We will also build the infrastructure for these. The material damage of all of these is around 100 billion dollars. Some of the people are in tents, some are in container cities. Naturally, they want to get out of there as soon as possible. They say, 'build our houses quickly, give them back.' These will be done, there is no solution." Özhaseki stated that they will overcome this burden and provided the following information: "Our disaster housing is rising rapidly in 11 provinces affected by the earthquake. Hopefully, as we promised, we will complete more than 300 thousand houses within a year, and after that, all the other houses in 1.5 and 2 years and bring everyone back to their homes. There are new formulas we are working on for the earthquake zone, I will present them to our President in our cabinet meeting. When those formulas come into effect, we will finish the houses of our earthquake victimized brothers and sisters in a much shorter time. We will bring back safe and sound houses without victimizing any of our citizens." "456 thousand 770 permanent houses will be built in 11 provinces affected by the earthquake" Minister Özhaseki's statement also shared data regarding the houses built and planned to be built by TOKİ and Emlak Konut General Directorate under the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. Accordingly, a total of 456 thousand 770 houses will be built: 12 thousand 705 in Adana, 44 thousand 459 in Adıyaman, 11 thousand 966 in Diyarbakır, 8 thousand 253 in Elazığ, 25 thousand 6 in Gaziantep, 197 thousand 248 in Hatay, 72 thousand 257 in Kahramanmaraş, 1165 in Kilis, 66 thousand 99 in Malatya, 11 thousand 225 in Osmaniye and 6 thousand 387 in Şanlıurfa. In this context, the construction of a total of 148,252 houses continues, including 3,638 in Adana, 26,233 in Adıyaman, 6,278 in Diyarbakır, 2,606 in Elazığ, 19,919 in Gaziantep, 33,467 in Hatay, 29,312 in Kahramanmaraş, 1,854 in Kilis, 14,338 in Malatya, 4,892 in Osmaniye, and 5,715 in Şanlıurfa. Additionally, a total of 143,271 village houses will be built: 2,438 in Adana, 23,640 in Adıyaman, 2,361 in Diyarbakır, 12,607 in Gaziantep, 34,129 in Hatay, 30,310 in Kahramanmaraş, 2,628 in Kilis, 25,302 in Malatya, 6,856 in Osmaniye, and 3,000 in Şanlıurfa. In this context, a total of 600,041 disaster houses will be built along with 456,770 permanent houses and 143,271 village houses and delivered to earthquake victimized beneficiaries. Workplace construction is also continuing in order for life to return to normal in the earthquake zone. In this context, construction works continue for a total of 936 workplaces, including 714 in Malatya, 142 in Kahramanmaraş, and 80 in Gaziantep İslahiye.