Casablanca Plans 60,000 Apartments to Eliminate Slums Before 2030 World Cup

The authorities of Casablanca plan to rehouse the residents of the slums in apartments in order to once and for all rid the economic capital of Morocco of these dwellings that are detrimental to its image and reputation, according to sources at Hespress, specifying that more than 60,000 apartments will be made available to the people concerned.

A framework agreement between the local authorities of Casablanca, the municipal council, the council of the Casablanca-Settat region, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Policy and other stakeholders should be signed to allow the rehousing of slum residents in these apartments, add the same sources.

The demolition operations carried out as part of the "Cities without Slums" program launched in 2004 have unfortunately not made it possible to free Casablanca from its slums. The city is home to the largest slum in the kingdom, in Rhamna, in the Sidi Moumen district, as well as small slums like the one in Hay Al Hassani.

According to the data recently provided by Fatima Zahra Mansouri, Minister of Housing, Urban Planning and Urban Policy, some 150,000 families continue to live in slums. Already a total of 300,000 families have been rehoused.