low cost housing - moladi
BBC NEWS Business Moroccan efforts to replace slums Moroccan efforts to replace slums By Malcolm Borthwick Editor, Middle East Business Report Casablanca has one of the largest slums in the whole of the Arab world Think of Casablanca and most of us imagine Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman's epic wartime love affair. But this sprawling port city of more than three million people is also home of some of the largest slums in the Arab world. The rising young population, and growth in rural urban migration, has put pressure on housing, in cities such as Casablanca. Larbi Adri, a Moroccan electrician, showed us around the Casablancan slum where he lived for 10 years until a few weeks ago. It is early afternoon and many of his friends are hanging around here, because they don't have jobs. Unemployment is high, and without a steady job there's little hope of escaping the squalor. Sometimes my husband works all day and he doesn't earn even one cent; sometimes he doesn't se