Housing Policy Advice to the Moroccan Government
In the design of the technical assistance project, the provision of a $65 million Housing Guaranty Loan covering all of MHAT’s low-income housing programs was to have been the catalyst in influencing Moroccan housing policy development. Immediately prior to the start of the project, however, the amount of the loan was reduced to $17 million to be applied to only two of the Ministry’s programs. While the loan agreement for this new amount has still not been signed, the Project Implementation Agreement was finally signed 20 months after the project had started.
All of these events had an important impact on the project, including the approach adopted, actual activities undertaken and the eventual outputs. The absence of a $65 million Housing Guaranty Loan was particularly influential because this loan would have provided an important base on which essential housing policy options could have been addressed in an atmosphere of mutual interest.
