“100 dollars for rent or else…” The Khan Al-Askar project is outside the municipality’s accounts in terms of services, but it is present in the rent collection ledger

The Municipality of Tripoli verbally informed the residents of the “Khan el-Askar housing project”, to pay their rent, thus raising the rent value to USD 100, threatening with eviction those who were unable to pay. This decision threatens the stability of some 230 people living in this public housing project, which was established specifically to accommodate them after their eviction from Khan el-Askar, another episode of a long history of challenges they have faced since the 1950s.

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