The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has approved a plan of the Ministry of Social Affairs to set up 16,000 units for popular housing at a cost of SR 2.4 billion for the current fiscal year as a first stage in the Kingdom's 13 regions. In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency, the Minister of Social Affairs Abdulmohsin bin Abdulaziz Al-Akkas said that a sum of SR 10 billion of the general surplus of the state's budget has been appropriated for the projects of popular housing consisting of 64,000 units over the next four years.