A survey by the Housing Ministry disclosed today that some 64,000 families live in sub-standard housing in Israel’s urban areas. The survey classified sub-standard housing into three categories. It found that 23,000 Jewish families live in damaged flats; 26,000 families in overcrowded apartments and the balance in housing that is both overcrowded and unfit because of its poor physical condition.
The survey said that many families live in Arab houses which were deserted by their original occupants in 1948, Large areas of such housing in the towns of Ramallah and Lod must be razed or extensively renovated, the Ministry said. The survey noted that the situation was not much better in the crowded ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter of Jerusalem, Unfit housing must be torn down, the Ministry said.
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