Speaking to an Anatolia news agency reporter, Bayraktar stated that his administration would not exit the market and instead would be “continuing at a faster pace and surpassing our targets.” He added that they had met their seven-year goal of building 350,000 homes and revealed that they had instead reached 400,000. By 2011, his administration expects to reach 500,000 homes.
Bayraktar revealed that TOKİ was currently following two business paths, one that was focused on building homes for poor and low-income families, and the other which focused on urban renewal programs in cooperation with municipalities. He added that some continue to ask his administration to build schools, hospitals, health clinics and family consulting centers, and that they are meeting these requests as much as possible.
Pointing out that his administration has been forming cooperative agreements with the government and municipalities to realize urban renewal projects that would help low-income citizens acquire housing at affordable prices, Bayraktar noted that these projects were mostly implemented for citizens living in slum-like areas.
