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Last update - 05:53 26/09/2007 J'lem municipality advancing plan to build 1,900 apartments for Arabs By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel, housing, Jerusalem  The Jerusalem municipality is moving forward with a plan to build some 1,900 apartments for Arabs in the Issawiya neighborhood as part of the city's master plan. First proposed by the Bimkom - Planners for Planning Rights organization, the plan is intended, among other things, to retroactively legalize illegal construction in the neighborhood and enable new housing units to be built to accommodate its natural growth. The municipality's planning authorities approved it back in 2005. Issawiya's population is estimated at 12,000, and is expected to grow to some 18,500 by 2020. The neighborhood's shortage of land and building permits is acute, and as in other Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem, the city has issued numerous demolition orders for its illegally constructed houses. Advertisement Bimkom planners and architects planned the new housing in Issawiya together with the local population and on the basis of its needs. The plan could thus become a model for other neighborhoods of the city. The neighborhood is located at the foot of Jerusalem's French Hill, just northwest of the road to Ma'aleh Adumim. "The building plan in Issawiya is one of 20 plans in north Jerusalem that have been approved and 30 others that are about to be approved," Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski said in a statement yesterday. "These plans are a breakthrough in improving East Jerusalem residents' status as equal citizens of the capital and will improve their quality of life." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Diskin's faulty math The Shin Bet's estimate of civilian casualties was revealed to be too low. Wooing minorities The color of Barack Obama's skin has returned as an issue to the campaign.   1.   Ghettoization 07:31  |  Natallie Durson 26/09/07   2.   Far from enough, but...... 09:27  |  Esther 26/09/07   3.   Why doesn`t the Left object? 10:38  |  Binyamin Dissen 26/09/07   4.   #1 NUTTily 11:02  |  Ari ben Yisrael 26/09/07   5.   Binyamin Dissen 11:04  |  charles 26/09/07   6.   Objection 11:26  |  Murray 26/09/07   7.   Nataly it is them or us I don`t fancy return to a Mella 16:49  |  Another Jew 30/09/07   8.   Interesting that it took a hareidi mayor to do something. 16:51  |  Just A jew 30/09/07   9.   Reality check 10:21  |  Sheryl Abbey 15/01/08

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