Iraq is planning to expand Sadr City in the capital Baghdad by adding nearly 90,000 houses to ease crowding due to a rapid growth in its population, an Iraqi official was reported on Thursday as saying. 

The cabinet has endorsed the project for the development and extension of the City, a key district suburb of Baghdad that was formerly known as “Saddam City” and has a population of nearly one million. 

“A government committee has been formed to follow up this project, which is intended to improve the living and economic conditions of the city,” Cabinet Secretariat spokesman Haidar Majid told the Iraqi Al-Iqtisad News website. 

“The project involves the construction of 90,000 new housing units with the aim of easing the demographic pressure in the city and create new jobs.” 

(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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