Tunisia Launches Eight Social Housing Projects for Low-Income Families

Tunisia's Housing Finance Agency (AFH) is set to launch a strategic program encompassing eight social housing projects designed for low-income households. The initiative aims to significantly increase the availability of affordable social housing and simplify property ownership for eligible families. The first phase will introduce three pilot projects in Sidi Thabet, Ben Arous, and Mahdia, with work scheduled to commence in 2026.

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This ambitious program, which will gradually extend to eight projects, relies on new legal and financial mechanisms to reduce realization costs and ensure the allocation of plots to eligible beneficiaries.

Rajeb Arroud, the CEO of AFH, explained that this ambitious program relies on new legal and financial mechanisms to reduce development costs and ensure fair allocation of plots. These projects are part of a joint decision made on April 8, 2025, by the Ministries of Equipment and Housing and State Domains and Land Affairs. This measure allows AFH to acquire state-owned lands under preferential conditions, which is expected to lower the selling prices of plots for low-income families.

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This measure should result in a decrease in the selling prices of plots for the benefit of low-income families.

The pilot projects, named "Al Arij" in Sidi Thabet, "Jnane El Mohammedia" in Ben Arous, and "Ezzitouna" in Mahdia, have received approval to begin construction in 2026. Following this initial phase, the program will expand to include the remaining five projects. To ensure transparency and equal opportunity, Arroud stated that all applications for these social housing projects, whether current or future, must be submitted through a unified digital platform.

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In a concern for transparency and equal opportunities, the CEO of AFH specified that applications for obtaining a plot in these social projects, current or future, must be made via a unified digital platform.