JEDDAH — A field team tasked with evaluating the Iskan housing projects of the Real Estate Development Fund in Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam has recommended that some of the buildings in the projects be demolished.



The recommendations, which were submitted to the Ministry of Housing, call for buildings that are in good shape to be renovated while others that have exceeded their life expectancy, to be demolished and new ones constructed in their place, Al-Watan newspaper reported Thursday.



Earlier, the ministry said the Real Estate Development Fund and its branches in the different cities will award yearly contracts for the maintenance and operation of the buildings that are part of a cluster of tenements.



Residents have complained for years about the decaying state of the buildings and since 2009, the Civil Defense has evicted dozens of residents of the crumbling structures. — SG