Widely viewed as a fundamental imbalance between the availability of housing and the needs of local population, Algeria's housing crisis actually involves a much bigger quantitative and qualitative issue. As a strategy of controlling urban expansion, the majority of wilayas in Algeria prefer to build new cities. This is the situation with the new city of Ali Mendjeli in Constantine. The formation of this new planned town was governed by a program of regional planning and development. Its principal objective was to plan and organize the urban evolution of a metropolis that could no longer sustain the pressure of its rapid population increase and high immigration levels. Having successfully absorbed a substantial portion of Constantine's deficit, this new city is similarly saturated and unable to accommodate current or future population growth. In order to fulfill the growing demand for housing among city dwellers, urban extensions have been planned and launched concurrently with the urbanization of the new city. The objective of this article is to present an overview of this urban phenomena, which is associated with the creation of urban extensions on the outskirts of the new town over the past decade in response to the housing challenges that weighed heavily on the whole metropolis of Constantine. This feature needs both analytic and retroactive analyses to establish whether the government entities implementing the new policy are providing the necessary material and institutional resources for its implementation. As it illustrates certain effects and implications of this increased house production on the quality of life in Ali Mendjeli's new city.
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