A member of parliament says 20 million people in Iran live in marginalized areas.
A member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly's Civil Affairs Commission says that 20 million people in Iran, or "about a quarter" of the country's population, are "marginalized."
According to ILNA news agency on Tuesday, February 16, Mojtaba Yousefi stated that according to the 2017 census, 6.5 million Iranian families are renters, and said that despite 800,000 marriages annually, the number of renters is constantly increasing.
According to this report, rental rates have increased by 54 percent in urban areas of Iran compared to last year.
Yousefi stated that in the 1980s, the construction rate was "900,000 residential units" and has now decreased to less than "200,000 urban and rural units," and announced that the previous government "proudly" announced that it had not built any housing in the past eight years.
According to an official report by the Central Bank of Iran, housing rent growth in January 2021 in Tehran was 50.7 percent and in all urban areas was 54 percent compared to January of last year.
Some social media users say they have criticized the rate of rent growth.
Journalist Amir Ebtehaj tweeted, referring to the promise of "free housing," that "exactly 43 years later," rented "condos" in south Tehran, where rents previously stood at 50 tomans, are now 200 tomans a month.
Hassan Bardal, a graphic designer and photographer, also cited his personal experience and said that the amount of money "for similar cases has at least doubled compared to six months ago."
Source: Voice of America
