{"id":20962,"date":"2026-09-02T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/mullah-baradar-urges-investment-in-afghanistan-housing-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T14:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T14:00:17","slug":"mullah-baradar-urges-investment-in-afghanistan-housing-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/mullah-baradar-urges-investment-in-afghanistan-housing-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullah Baradar Urges Investors to Back Afghanistan\u2019s Housing Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban administration\u2019s deputy prime minister for economic affairs, has called on investors to put money into Afghanistan\u2019s housing sector, amid an ongoing shortage of homes and rising demand for shelter in cities.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks on the day the foundation stone was laid for block B4 of the &#8220;Peace Town&#8221; residential project for Macrorayan V in Kabul. According to him, investment in the housing sector can help meet part of Afghanistan\u2019s need for housing and shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Baradar also said that population growth in Kabul and the shortage of homes are problems that can be eased to some extent through residential projects. He asked the company implementing the project to observe standards and quality at every stage of the work.<\/p>\n<p>Macrorayan is one of Kabul\u2019s best-known residential areas, and similar projects are usually presented with the aim of meeting the capital\u2019s growing housing needs, as the city has in recent years faced population growth and pressure on urban services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mullah Baradar urges investors to back Afghanistan\u2019s housing sector as Kabul faces rising demand for homes and shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}