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News 30 May 2013 4 min read

3,666 homes threaten ruin in the Medina of Fes

- A meeting on "The treatment of housing threatening ruin in the Medina of Fes" brings together local authorities, external services, elected officials, Ader, and civil society for the implementation of the five-year restoration programme (2013-2017).
- This programme, with a total investment of 615 million dirhams, concerns nearly 4,000 buildings threatening ruin as well as 27 monuments and historical sites of the Medina of Fes.
3,666 homes threaten ruin in the Medina of Fes
Once again, housing threatening ruin in Fes calls out and brings together local authorities, notably the Wali of Fes, various departments concerned, elected officials, Ader (Agency for the dedensification and rehabilitation of the Medina), and civil society. And for once, it is not because of the collapse of old homes on their inhabitants or a historical site falling into ruin. It is in fact the implementation of the five-year restoration programme (2013-2017), launched recently byKing Mohammed VI, which motivates this meeting on "the treatment of housing threatening ruin in the Medina of Fes". And there is urgency. The Wali of the Fes-Boulemane region and governor of the Fes-Medina prefecture, Mohammed Dardouri, indicated in his speech that the problem of buildings threatening ruin in the Medina of Fes was very sensitive and complex. It is at the origin of the creation of Ader more tha…

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