Housing Minister Says Ready To Build 10,000 Homes Over Green Line

[Purveyor]

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, LAHAV HARKOV07/10/2013 18:40

Plans for 10,000 homes over the pre-1967 lines were ready to be marketed in Jerusalem and West Bank settlements, the Minister for Construction and Housing Uri Ariel (Bayit Yehudi) said on Wednesday as he called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to solve his housing crisis by approving the projects.

“We have the ability to market 10,000 housing units in [east] Jerusalem and the settlement blocks in Judea and Samaria,” Ariel told the Knesset Finance Committee during a meeting on the housing budget for 2013-2014.

This includes plans for homes in the settlements of Beit Aryeh, Ofarim and Elkana, Ariel said.

Jerusalem is one of the areas in the country with an acute housing shortage, Ariel said. As a result, he said, prices have risen by 41% from 2008-2012, compared to a 27% hike in the rest of the country for that same period.

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[delrem]

1. Oh, well, cool. So long as everyone agrees to support a "two-state solution" (tm)

[malokvale77]

2. And somebody gets to make bookoos amount of money.