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Emergency response to Housing, Land and Property issues in Iraq Briefing note | December, 2016 KEY MESSAGES Humanitarian actors need to take into account the While humanitarian response must remain focused on Housing, Land and Property (HLP) dimensions of the immediate life-saving activities, steps to address HLP displacement crisis in Iraq. Many of the displaced are issues should be considered at the outset, as the failure compelled to reside in sub-standard accommodation to do so can undermine the efficacy and durability of and those wishing to return face significant challenges in humanitarian assistance, returns and recovery. reclaiming their HLP. HLP in Iraq is used as a tool for warfare, providing On-going liberation efforts and changes in the frontline incentives to recruit fighters and rewarding affiliation; will trigger new waves of displacement and will further it is therefore important to protect HLP rights of the exacerbate the situation. population to remove one of the key incentives to continued sectarian war in the country. HLP CONTEXT IN IRAQ The current conflict in northern and central Iraq has As a result, the crisis combines the humanitarian resulted in the displacement of 3.1 million individuals, elements of short-term displacement with the problems of whom 15% reside in camps. Further displacement is of protracted displacement. The sectarian nature of part expected throughout 2017 due to ongoing and planned of the displacement renders a resolution to the Housing, military operations in Mosul. At the same time, over one Land and Property crisis much more challenging. million IDPs have returned to their areas of origin since January 2014. Of the returnees, 89% returned to their habitual residence, and the remainder resides in unfinished buildings, with host families, in informal settlements or in rented accommodation. Moreover, continued conflict in Syria has increased the number of refugees in Iraq to 249,395 individuals, of whom 39% reside out of camps. Iraq also possesses around 1.1 million protracted IDPs from earlier waves of displacement (i.e. 2006-2008), particularly in the south-central regions, who have yet to achieve durable solutions. Aftermath of ISIL occupation, Hardan, 2016 1 HLP CONCERNS IN AREAS OF Economic hardship: DISPLACEMENT As the duration of displacement becomes prolonged, financial resources are quickly being depleted, and Shortage of affordable and adequate housing: indebtedness is increasing. Livelihood opportunities Iraq is facing an acute shortage of affordable – which are linked to the possession of residency and adequate housing in areas of displacement, permits and other civil documentation – remain scarce, compelling IDPs and refugees to reside in sub-standard particularly in areas that host a large number of IDPs and accommodation, including collective centres, tents, refugees. Because of the influx of displaced people, rental unfinished or abandoned buildings, informal settlements, prices increase and IDPs and refugees are often charged and open air. These settings provide limited access inflated rent fees, including those in unfinished privately to essential services and inadequate guard against owned buildings and informal settlements. harsh weather conditions. Accommodation is often overcrowded, exposing people to significant protection BARRIERS TO RETURN risks due to the lack of privacy and physical security. This is in particular a concern for women and children. Loss of HLP documents: Lack of tenure of security: Many IDPs wishing to return cannot demonstrate their ownership of property and land due to missing The majority of IDPs residing in rented accommodation documentation. A rapid assessment conducted by UN- lack written lease agreements and thereby face a Habitat in late 2014 in Basra, Dahuk, Erbil and Baghdad heightened risk of evictions. IDPs face difficulties in on the barriers to return of displaced populations to their restoring lost civil documentation which is required to former properties found that among respondents who enter into lease agreements and familiarity with lease were HLP owners in their areas of origin and possessed agreements and acceptance of them is low. Women are an official deed, the vast majority did not know the rarely parties to lease agreements in Iraq, which leaves whereabouts of their HLP documents, but could rely on them particularly vulnerable to evictions. someone else as guarantor of their HLP claims. As well, Forced evictions and relocations: a significant number of returnees surveyed in return areas report that official property records, to the extent While the number of established and planned camps is they once existed, had been damaged, dispersed, or limited and most IDPs and refugees live in urban, out- completely destroyed as a deliberate act of various armed of-camp settings, government authorities are putting groups, predominantly ISIL. pressure on people to relocate to collective sites and newly established camps, sometimes before basic services Lack of formal property rights: and shelter that meet SPHERE standards have been put Even before the 2014 displacement crisis, IDPs from some in place. Local authorities in certain Governorates also do regions report a low incidence of formal registration of not always support upgrades of sub-standard housing in their residential property with the Central Iraq Real Estate urban areas by humanitarian shelter actors. Evictions and Registry. A 2016 IOM-conducted preliminary assessment relocations have led to increased vulnerability and severe of IDPs from the Governorates of Ninewah, Diyala, and protection risks, secondary displacement, exposure to Salah al Din show that in Ninewah specifically, only 10% harsh weather conditions, interruption of education, loss of those surveyed had formally registered their residential of livelihoods, exploitation of vulnerable IDPs, and resort property with the Real Estate Registry. Instead, according to negative coping strategies. to the assessment, 85% of Ninewah residents surveyed indicated that they opted for informal alternatives with regards to registering residential property. This informality TYPES OF needs to be understood when designing potential ACCOMMODATION interventions to re-establish HLP rights in areas of return. Destruction and unlawful seizure and sale of HLP: 3.1M 43% In conflict affected areas, unlawful seizure and sales by displaced persons are hosted in rented houses armed opposition groups, secondary occupation, and the systematic looting and destruction of homes and property, are all too common. The HLP of Christians and 23% 15% Yazidis have particularly been singled out for illegal are with host families stay in camps seizure by ISIL. In response, in August 2014 the Iraqi Ministry of Justice declared all transfers of ownership and registration of real estate in Anbar, Salahadin & Ninewa 17% 2% areas under ISIL control as void. are in critical other unspecified shelter arrangements shelter types 2 General Security and the Prevalence of Mines and IEDs in Areas of Return: LEGAL FRAMEWORK In conflict affected areas, general security remains a concern, particularly as it relates to the prevalence of Land registration and property rights in Iraq: mines, IEDs, booby traps, and unexploded ordnance in The Iraqi land administration is known as the Tapu (title the areas of return. While IDPs have returned to areas deed) system and includes categories that provide that have yet to be cleared, many are reluctant to expose individual property rights and group ownership. The Real themselves and their families to the potentially unsafe Estate Registration Law from 1974 established Real Estate conditions that exist in areas of return. Registration Departments (RERDs) throughout the country. HLP property restitution/compensation: 1975 Arabisation policy and forced evictions: Prior histories of dispossession and weak or non- As an attempt to enforce the Arabisation of the northern existent mechanisms for property restitution and areas inhabited by Iraqi minorities, the Algiers Agreement compensation make it difficult for IDPs who wish to signed in 1975 led to the forced deportation of ethnic return, or those who have already done so, to reclaim minorities to collective townships. These minorities were their HLP. Iraqis, and in particular certain minority groups, subsequently denied the possibility to register the assigned have experienced a long history of dispossession and parcels in their names. Many have been displaced for the property destruction due to political violence and ethnic/ second time in the current conflict with ISIL. sectarian cleansing policies during the Ba’athist period and military operations from 2003 onward. Many earlier Property recovery policies and mechanisms: claims for property restitution and compensation remain Following the collapse of the previous regime in 2003, unresolved, impeding the achievement of durable a property dispute mechanism, the Iraqi Property solutions for these and new caseloads of IDPs and Reconciliation Facility was established (succeeded in 2004 returnees. by the Iraq Property Claims Commission, IPCC), to resolve the claims resulting from the Arabisation Policy. The HLP dispute resolution: effectiveness of the IPCC has been poor due to a backlog The authorities’ ability to resolve HLP issues and in claims and the lack of enforcement of adjudicated competing claims will be compromised by the fact that claims. 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