Law on Facilitating Housing for the Needy and Persons of Low and Limited Income

Type

Law

Date of the text

17/09/1962

Official Gazette

published in 1962

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

20

What it provides

This law sets out how low-income and limited-income Lebanese citizens are to be helped to obtain decent housing, through state-arranged construction, installment purchase over medium and long terms, and loans or aid for improving or extending existing homes. It also provides for a limited rental arrangement for certain

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law No. 58/1965, articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• Amended by Law No. 31/1973 of 21/12/1973, articles 2, 5, 12, 18

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1962. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.