Eligible Categories for Housing Services
Housing services are available to a range of eligible categories in accordance with the approved terms and conditions, taking into account the diverse family circumstances and housing needs of citizens. These categories are designed to support access to suitable housing and promote family and social stability, in line with each family’s circumstances and eligibility for housing services.
Head of household: The Bahraini husband or wife with the consent of the husband or both of them an agreement between them.
Head of the family: The Bahraini husband or Bahraini wife, with the consent of the husband or both, agreeing between them.
Head of household: A Bahraini parent or wife.
One of the parents with the son of one or more minors who hold Bahraini citizenship, and also includes a family that consists of a Bahraini married toa foreigner and has a son of one or more minors who hold Bahraini nationality.
Head of the household: the son selected according to the provisions of this category.
For a 21-year-old son who is not married, living with his Bahraini parents, or one of them, according to the following:
- That none of his parents have previously used a housing service.
- The choice of this son should be in accordance with the will and choice of the parents or one of them.
- This choice deprives the son and parents of applying for another housing service. This deprivation does not apply to other children when they meet the conditions for forming a family within the families that are eligible for housing service.
- The applicant's son may withdraw before the assignment to be replaced by another son who meets the same conditions, for one time only.
- In the case of the marriage of the applicant son, the wife, husband, and children - if any - are included in the members of this family.
Head of household: 21 year old son.
The son who is 21 years old orphaned by parents and has one or more minor brothers or sisters, who is chosen by agreement from his other brothers who have reached21 years old - if any - and this category provides housing service according to the estimate of the Housing Committee.
Head of household: divorced, abandoned, widowed or single.
Divorced and widowed Bahraini women without children, as well as divorced and widowed women, abandoned women by court ruling with non-Bahraini minor children, and single orphaned women, are granted temporary housing services only at the discretion of the Housing Committee.