The University of Basrah has started distributing to its professors (56) newly built low-cost houses with the specifications of residential apartments located in the residential complex of Bab Al-Zubair colleges complex.
Regarding the conditions and purpose of establishing these new houses, the university president, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, said, “We needed to expand the residential houses affiliated with the Bab Al-Zubair colleges complex in order to alleviate the housing crisis and create a healthy living environment for University professors to practice their functional work in their homes (like completing research and follow-up of their educational lessons with their students via the Internet). Many professors suffer from the small rented houses and the lack of a calm environment, and as you know, over the past three years, we have been suffering from the lack of investment budget allocations, which resulted in the incompletion of many important projects in the university, including buildings, construction, and expansions for colleges, a problem that most government departments suffer from is that the federal budgets are limited to salaries and operating expenses, and we have used our powers to create those houses with what we have.”
Shaheen added - “Today, administrative orders were given to allocate (56) homes to their beneficiaries, which took place under the same points and criteria for differentiation for each college, which is the same set for distributing the previously built homes with a symbolic rent to maintain the services in the area.
It is worth mentioning that there are other sites in the university that will soon follow suit in the expansion of its residential houses, including the housing complex of the Garmat Ali Colleges complex and the site of the College of Education located in the district of Qurna.
