The Iraqi government is working to establish a number of new residential mega-cities in different areas across the country as part of a plan to ease the acute housing crisis gripping the country. Densely overpopulated neighbourhoods and cities are just one of many complex crises Iraq has been afflicted with for decades, a problem compounded by a severe housing shortage which successive governments have failed to address. While Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani has stated that Iraq requires around three million housing units, the government’s current plans aim to oversee the construc…