Algeria builds 9,000 prefab units for quake victims

Algiers, Algeria (PANA) - Authorities here have signed an agreement with fourteen Algerian private and public companies to construct 9,000 prefab housing to accommodate families affected by the earthquake that hit Algiers and its surroundings 21 May 2003.
About 5,000 of the planned 9,000 chalets will be built at eleven sites in Algiers district, while the remaining 4,000 will be erected in Boumerdes district on 24 sites already identified.

Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia said 6,000 public housing units were already set up in Algiers and Boumerdes. But he added that 21,000 units (houses and chalets) would be built to house all the earthquake victims before the winter begins at the end of the year.

Ouyahia informed the earthquake victims that the chalets were a temporary measure as they would be broken down in two years when permanent housing becomes ready for all 160,000 people currently living in tents.