550 housing cooperatives fail to deliver housing units
According to Tejarat News, the spread of migration from rural to urban areas and the spread of urbanization caused large populations to gather in different urban areas. People who had moved to find work and build new lives needed shelter to live, and this required governments to He was planning to build a house.
Housing cooperatives are a group solution to build the housing needed by the population of the country, which has been in operation for years and has provided thousands of housing units to the people.
The performance report of housing cooperatives shows that many units have been handed over to their owners late, which in some cases has even lasted for years or sometimes halfway through, and the building has stopped at the skeletal stage.
The use of medium-quality building materials, the constant change of construction contractors, the companies’ failure to perform their duties, and the financial abuses of some members are also among the issues that have become problematic for housing cooperatives.
Weak oversight of cooperatives and the structure that governs cooperatives, especially in the housing sector, has ultimately led to mistrust and distancing people from them to the point that the share of cooperatives in the country’s economic system is less than 5 percent.
According to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, there are 96,000 cooperatives in the country, 14% of which are housing cooperatives, ie about 10,000 housing cooperatives in the country are working to build housing units for the people.
The available data show that most of the complaints against housing cooperatives were due to illegal sale of land, problems in infrastructure facilities, violations between members of cooperatives and non-delivery of housing units on time.
Members of various housing cooperatives have faced many problems in recent years, and some people, despite having a valid document, are still waiting for a house, albeit in installments, due to negligence and violations by cooperative managers.
There are 550 problematic cooperatives in the country
Mehdi Maskani, Deputy Minister of Cooperatives of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, in an interview with the Young Journalists Club, said about the fate of loans granted to housing cooperatives in the previous period: “We have about 10,000 housing cooperatives in the whole country We have set up a problematic housing cooperative headquarters in the ministry and planned for these 550 cooperatives. We told the provinces to do their extraordinary research on the housing cooperatives and announce the results.
The Deputy Minister of Cooperative Affairs of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare stated: “We need the help of the judiciary in this way. We are not concluding the issue in the discussion of cooperatives. Members have been identified.
Maskani continued: “Problems also go back to the cooperative sector. For example, the members of the cooperative did not justify their rights and powers, and we considered this policy to acquaint the members with our rights in order to solve some of the problems.”
He added: “The fight against corruption in cooperatives has been carried out seriously for 29 days.”
Source: Young Journalist Club