The University of Basrah has started distributing (56) newly built houses with the specifications of residential apartments to its professors located in the residential complex of the Bab Al-Zubair colleges site. Regarding the conditions and purpose of establishing these new houses, the university president, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, said, “We were called to expand the residential houses affiliated to the Bab Al-Zubair complex in order to alleviate the housing crisis and create a correct environment for teachers to practice their functional work in their homes from the completion of research and follow-up of educational lessons with students via the Internet, where many professors suffer from the tightness of rented houses and the lack of a calm environment, and as you know, over the past three years, we have been suffering from the lack of investment budget allocations and their suspension, which resulted in the incomplete completion of many important projects in the university, including buildings, construction, and expansions for colleges, a problem that most government departments suffer from due to the limited federal budgets to salaries and operating expenses, and we have used our powers to create those houses with what we have.”

Shaheen added - Today, administrative orders were given to allocate (56) homes to their beneficiaries, which took place by the same points and criteria for differentiation for each college, which is the same set for distributing the previously built homes with a symbolic rent to maintain the services in the area. There are other sites in the university that will soon follow suit in the expansion of its residential houses, including the housing complex of Garmat Ali Colleges site and the site of the College of Education located in the district of Qurna.