By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS

JEDDAH: Prince Sultan Charitable Foundation has constructed 200 low-cost housing units for the poor in Al-Laith in the Makkah province as part of a SR385 million project to supply affordable homes.

It will aim to provide 1,246 houses in different parts of the Kingdom.

“We are now furnishing the Al-Laith houses before they are handed over to the beneficiaries,” said Prince Faisal bin Sultan, secretary-general of the foundation.

He said the foundation has completed 80 percent of another housing project in Hail where 50 homes and a 1,000 capacity mosque are under construction.

“We have also completed about 40 percent of another housing project in Tabuk, constructing 250 housing units in nine locations,” Prince Faisal told the Saudi Press Agency.

He said Crown Prince Sultan, deputy premier and minister of defense and aviation and chairman of the foundation, has given utmost importance to housing projects. “He has given his directives to complete all projects as quickly as possible,” he said. read more