Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 4225

Houses provided by the State to house Kuwaiti families entitled to housing welfare. Deemed part of the State’s private property. They are not allocated to public use, and pursuant to Article 21 of the Council of Ministers’ Resolution concerning the Housing Welfare System, their ownership may be transferred to those to whom they are allocated under the conditions set forth in that Article. A person allocated government housing is prohibited from disposing of it by sale if ownership of that housing has not passed to him. His disposition of it by sale is not effective against the State, which is entitled to recover it and evacuate it through administrative means, with cancellation of the allocation.