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Saudi housing scheme mobilises millions in effort to tackle homes crisis

Previously highlighted in The Herald, Saudi Arabia's Jood Eskan program mobilizes 1.4 million volunteers and 313 nonprofit organizations to address housing needs through a unified digital platform managed by the Housing Developmental Foundation, known as SAKAN.
Operating at a national scale, Jood Eskan coordinates contributions from more than 4.5 million donors, utilizing a multi-stakeholder framework that integrates nonprofits, volunteers, and digital systems to ensure accountability.
Jood Eskan reduced case resolution time from roughly one month to 19 days, managing a digital assessment process for more than 400,000 beneficiary applications annually while maintaining strict oversight of partner costs.
During Ramadan, when charitable activity and beneficiary demand intensify, the platform maintains operational discipline, demonstrating resilience under concentrated demand while managing beneficiary information under a defined privacy framework.
Observers characterize Jood Eskan as an ambitious, imperfect governance model that warrants serious scrutiny, as it tests whether large-scale digital systems can balance administrative throughput with verified long-term housing stability.

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Saudi housing scheme mobilises millions in effort to tackle homes crisis

The international development community has spent years arguing that complex social challenges are best addressed through coordinated, multi-stakeholder systems.

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