KUWAIT: Municipal Council member Nayef Al-Sour criticized the Interior Ministry for what he described as their ‘silence’ over the spread of online and social media ads that promote for apartments for rent without following the proper channels.

Some ads offer furnished apartments for daily or weekly rent without requiring tenants to provide marriage certificates or any other documents, something that can be used to facilitate adultery and prostitution, Sour warned. —Al-Rai

Low-cost homes for Kuwaiti women

Kuwait Credit Bank is coordinating with the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) to provide low-cost homes for female citizens, Director Salah Al- Mudhaf said. The project would complete the implementation of the Kuwaiti women’s housing welfare law that was passed five years ago and also allows a female citizen to obtain a KD 70,000 housing loan. Low-cost homes would be available for widows or divorced women with or without children, women married to non-Kuwaitis with children, women married for at least five years without children to non-Kuwaitis who live in Kuwait, and non-married women who reach 40 years of age. —Al-Jarida