A new sample of official government statements and media reports directed at the Bahraini citizen has emerged. The situation is demeaning to Bahrainis to say the least. Here comes another government action insulting the intelligence of citizens and not giving them any consideration.

Bahrainis circulated the news that the Court of Cassation issued a ruling recently rejecting the appeal by former housing bank director Isa Sultan Al-Dhawadi and upholding his 10-year prison sentence for "seizure of public funds" amounting to about 1.5 million dinars.

Members of the Civil Housing Committee Al-Dair and Samaheej submitted a written letter to the Ministry inquiring about the location of the two villages' upcoming residential projects

Fourteen years after the Crown Prince laid its cornerstone, the Bahraini Ministry of Housing began distributing certificates of entitlement to the "Northern City" houses. This took place in the second half of 2016.

An official statement said that the Bahraini government approved the reduction of the minimum wage of social housing beneficiaries to 500 Bahraini dinars per month.

Bahraini Housing Minister Bassem Al-Hamr said the ministry had drawn up a plan to raise the age of the beneficiaries of social housing.

Residents of Bilad Al-Qadeem staged a protest on Sunday (May 14, 2017) after they were excluded from the housing projects that the Housing Ministry started to distribute among people, who submitted housing requests in different governorates.

Bahraini citizen Sayed Shobbar Al-Sayed Hashem (52 years) said that he has filed a housing request since 1993 (25 years ago).

The Ministry of Interior said that installing surveillance cameras outside residential apartment comes as part of an enhancement and development scheme for housing buildings in Salmabad.

Bahraini citizens, who have benefited from the residential apartments, presented by the Housing Ministry in Salmabad, said, “The Ministry of Housing started a few days ago to install surveillance cameras outside the entrances of the apartments.”

Bahrain’s Members of Parliament rejected during last week’s session a proposal conditioning 10-years of naturalization to have passed for any individual to receive housing services.

Multi-million contracts were signed today to construct 1265 units type D11 as part of Al-Ramli housing project. The Ministry of Housing signed the construction contracts with the Saudi Development Fund (SDF).

Sheikh Abduljalil Al-Miqdad’s family said that the Housing Ministry is postponing handing in their housing unit in a project in Bilad al-Qadeem, for around 2 years now, without any legal justification.

Bahrain Mirror: The Al-Wasat newspaper published interviews with a number of Manama citizens in which they complained that “their old residential requests have become almost frozen…and pending for many years”