The CESE report on housing in rural areas, developed with interview-based input from 17 governmental and non-governmental actors, was adopted by the unanimous vote of all Council members during the General Assembly’s 89th regular session on 30 August 2018.
The CESE report on housing in rural areas, developed with interview-based input from 17 governmental and non-governmental actors, was adopted by the unanimous vote of all Council members during the General Assembly’s 89th regular session on 30 August 2018.
A key finding of this report is that villages in rural areas in Morocco are mostly dispersed and split up into several groups of dwellings with poor access to basic social services and little to stimulate economic development, particularly for non-farm economic activities. Another main feature of rural housing in Morocco, the report goes on, is the rapid growth of large numbers of newly emerging rural centers that are unplanned and infrastructure deficient.
The Council’s recommendations in this respect cover the following two main points:
The following proposals are therefore made: