Monday, February 10, 2014

In the midst of a housing shortage, the answer is to tear down homes?

Another boneheaded decision in Nouri's Iraq.  Alsumaria reports that some Baghdad families are outraged, they've just learned their homes will be demolished to build a park.

Parks are nice and they are needed every where around the world.  Omar al-Shaher (Al-Monitor) noted in March, "The population increase has put Iraq in a difficult position in light of the worsening housing crisis. Hindawi said that estimates from the Ministry of Planning indicate that the country is in need of 2 million residential units to overcome the housing crisis."  Tamara Walid (Bloomberg News) interviewed Iraq's Housing and Construction Minister Mohammad Saheb al-Darraji in 2012 and Walid explained, "The country needs 2.5 million homes in the next four or five years, although budgetary constraints may make that target difficult to achieve, al-Darraji said."

When there's a severe housing shortage and you need to build 2.5 million homes and haven't yet, you don't start tearing down existing homes to create a park.

Parks are needed, nice and necessary.  But when you have a housing shortage, you don't tear down homes until new ones are built.  Many parks could be created in Baghdad very easily.  No houses need be torn down.  Just get rid of the piles of garbage at the end of streets and on empty lots.

Only Nouri's government would come up with the 'brilliant' idea of tearing down homes in the midst of a severe housing crisis.


Through yesterday, Iraq Body Count counts 269 violent deaths.


Today?   National Iraqi News Agency reports a Kirkuk car bombing claimed 1 life, a Kirkuk sticky bombing claimed 1 life, a central Baghdad bombing (Bab aal-Muadham area) left a colonel injured, an attack on Judge Saadoun al-Hesniyani's residence left 2 security guards injured, a Falluja bombing left 3 people dead and six injured, an Aliyadhiyah roadside bombing left two Iraqi soldiers injured, a Musayyib sticky bombing claimed 1 life and left three injured, a southwest Baghdad roadside bombing (Baya area) left five people injured, a Shirqat roadside bombing left two Iraqi soldiers injured, a Hit roadside bombing left 1 police member dead and three more injured, an al-Shi'lar sticky bombing left three people injured, a suicide bombing near al-Sidikiyah bridge (near Ramadi) left 2 Iraqi soldiers and 2 police members dead with seven more injured, Falluja General Hospital was again shelled (by Iraqi military) and 1 person was killed with fourteen more left injured ("including a doctor and three nurses"),  a Nasiriyah roadside bombing left four people injured, a Baghdad home invasion left five people injured, a Samarra car bombing killed 21 people, a Mosul car bombing left eleven people injured (relatives of Nineveh Police Chief Khalid al-Hamdani), a central Baghdad sticky bombing left six people injured, a Baghdad attack (al-Obeidi area) left 1 person dead and another injured,  a Sadr City bombing left one person injured, a Mahmudiya bombing left 1 person dead and two more injured, a roadside bombing outside of Mosul targeting the Speaker of Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi's convoy leaving six of  his security guards injured, and 1 corpse (bullet wounds) was found dumped in Abu Ghraib.


Last week, the Justice and Accountability Commission excluded 69 candidates from the expected April 30th parliamentary elections.  National Iraqi News Agency notes they excluded 6 more candidates today.

Bonnie notes that Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Joker" went up Sunday and earlier today his "Success" went up as well.















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