affordable housing

At a recent roundtable held by Middle East Architect at Cosentino’s showroom in Dubai Design District, various architects discussed the region’s need for a new residential typology that would classify as social housing. And while traditional forms of social housing haven’t been particularly explored in the GCC, HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, recently instructed municipality officials to work on housing plans to meet the needs of the UAE’s citizens. Municipality officials were instructed to coordinate with relevant authorities to devise the plan.