5 million people registered in Iran's housing system; Minister of Roads: Most of them are tenants or live in rooftops
Iran's Minister of Roads and Urban Development stated that the country needs 10 million new housing units, and announced that the number of people who have been left single due to financial problems and lack of a home is more than 8 million.
Rostam Ghasemi announced the number of people who have registered in the "Housing Movement" system so far as 5 million, and said: "Most of these people are either tenants or live on rooftops, and the number of people without housing is certainly higher than this, while there are more than two million empty houses in the country."
Stating that the biggest problem with housing is the limited availability of land, he promised: "We will build four million units within four years."
Previously, Mojtaba Yousefi, a member of the Parliament's Civil Affairs Commission, announced that Iran's marginalized population is 20 million people, about a quarter of the country's population, and said that despite 800,000 marriages annually, the number of tenants is constantly increasing.
According to an official report by the Central Bank of Iran, housing rents in January 2021 increased by 50.7% in Tehran and 54% in all urban areas compared to January of the previous year.
The excessive increase in rent prices in Iran has reached various cities. In the final days of 1400, the ILNA news agency reported on the "astronomical" rent prices in Urmia, which have made the city uninhabitable for workers and the "weak" class of society, and people have "taken refuge in the outskirts."
Earlier, economic analyst Navid Jamshidi, referring to the 13th government's domestic economic policies and the "housing super-crisis," told the Persian service of the Voice of America that the claim of promising to build one million housing units per year is ridiculous and impossible, given the economic situation and the budget deficit that the gentlemen themselves predict for this year of at least 400 trillion tomans.
According to this analyst of Iranian affairs, "nothing special is going to happen in the field of economic diplomacy, nor in the field of the domestic economy," and "this very housing issue is a melon skin that has been thrown under the feet of Ebrahim Raisi and his friends."
Source: Voice of America
