Agence de Réhabilitation Urbaine et du Logement Social (Fonds de l'Habitat)

The main objective of the Housing Fund, a parapublic institution created in 2001 and with administrative and financial autonomy, was to respond to housing challenges.

The Housing Fund was already the result of the Merger of the Barwako Urban Development Fund (FDU) and the Real Estate Investment Fund. The purpose of the merger was to finance large-scale real estate projects to facilitate access to land ownership for low-income households. During its existing period (2001-2018), the Housing Fund has built over 4,000 housing units and 4,500 serviced plots.

In June 2018, at the end of a new institutional reframing desired by the higher authorities to be in phase with the problems of the housing sector, the establishment called "Housing Fund" was dissolved by Law No. 9 / AN / 18 / 8ème, and replaced, a new public establishment called the Urban Rehabilitation and Social Housing Agency (ARULOS).

The Urban Rehabilitation and Social Housing Agency (ARULOS) is also endowed with legal personality with administrative and financial autonomy. Vested with the technical missions of the Housing Fund, the nature of its mission has been broadened to include restructuring and the elimination of substandard housing (to fight against the formation of slums).

The Urban Rehabilitation and Social Housing Agency is attached to the Ministry Delegate to the Ministry of Housing, Urban Planning and the Environment in charge of Housing is subject to the economic and financial control of the State bodies provided for by the legislation in force.