Sakani, a Saudi program concerned with housing, has said that 130,400 Saudi families owned their first homes during the first nine months of 2022.
Sakani indicated that it comes within the framework of the program's endeavor to support beneficiaries to achieve the objectives of the housing program and increase the percentage of home ownership to 70 percent by 2030.
It explained that 12.1 thousand families benefited from the options and solutions it provided last September, while 12.9 thousand families received their first home in the same month.
Sakani offers nine new optional support programs within its solutions to Saudi families. The new packages included: the provided support package, the rental package, the furniture package, the self-construction package, and the housing renewal package.
The packages provide the beneficiary multiple flexible solutions by delivering immediate, non-refundable support to beneficiaries of ready-made, under-construction, and self-construction housing units in partnership with The Real Estate Development Fund and financing agencies and real estate developers.
The agency's website and application provide residential facilities and services, which include the real estate advisor, issuance of real estate tax certificates for the first house, obtaining a quotation from financing agencies, issuing e-land contracts, benefiting from the engineering designs service, the e-financing service, and the real estate market.
Meanwhile, the Saudi Ministry of Interior announced that digital transformation directly impacted various aspects and saved over $4.5 billion annually.
The Ministry announced that it succeeded in curbing forgery and manipulations, saving time and effort for beneficiaries on a social level.
The statement noted that, environmentally, 35,000 trees were preserved with 559 million leaves. Carbon emissions were also reduced by 500 million kilograms between 2018 and 2020, and more than 5.1 trillion gallons of water were saved during the same period.
The Ministry also presented many technical and digital achievements during the GITEX Technology Week 2022 in Dubai, which contributed to raising the quality of life for citizens, residents, and visitors to the Kingdom.
