Then, the Minister of Housing delivered a speech in which he described the housing sector as one of the most important sectors for citizens to meet their aspirations. He pointed out that as the importance of private sector's participation in the development, the Ministry of Housing has been working on the partnership project with the private sector, which aims to contribute to pumping more housing units through a variety of options, high quality and favorable prices as it has signed, in this context, a number of partnerships with a range of qualified real estate development companies inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad to build 180,000 residential units in all regions during a short period of time at affordable prices. --SPA 16:21 LOCAL TIME 13:21 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w