WB: Property legalization has stalled
17/10/2011 00:00
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A recent World Bank report that analyzes the chaotic property
legalization process in Albania indicates the details in which the
process has stalled. According to this report, Albania has more than
270.000 informal object legalization requests, but only less than the
half of them has been verified.
The second phase, in which process is stalling, is at the intermediate link, or more specifically, the one that makes the document delivery from the “Agency for Legalization, Urbanization and Integration of Informal Construction and Areas (ALUIIC)” to the government for the final decision.
According to the World Bank, the government has received 54.000 legalization requests until June 2011, and only 4503 formal decisions have been taken, only 1.6 % of the total. The government is wasting too much time and the process is stalling without succeeding.
The World Bank notes that this stalemate occurs for two reasons. First, it is the lack of coordination between the three institutions that are responsible for returning the properties to the legal owners: ALUIIC, the Agency of Property Return and the Property Registration Office.
These agencies have problems with the data standardization. The maps that ALUIIC has processed on terrain with the latest technology cannot be processed by the Property Registration Office, which doesn’t have this kind of technology. According to the World Bank, this has slowed the process down and has reduced the data accuracy.
The second reason, which must be the most important, is the cost. The money that the government collects from the legalization process is not enough for compensating the legal owners whose property has been occupied.
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