Are agricultural lands victims of the national housing movement? – Tejarat News

According to Tejarat News, providing suitable land for housing construction was one of the main concerns of the construction of the National Housing Movement units from the very beginning. A problem that over time showed its dimensions not only in big cities but in the whole country.

This story and the problem in providing financial resources for the implementation of the project continued until some time ago, until finally it entered a new stage with the new actions and decisions of the government. In this regard, the Minister of Roads and Urban Development recently announced that 30 thousand hectares of land have been handed over to the National Housing Movement. But considering the lack of buildable land in the country, from what sources have these lands been provided?

It seems that the provision of land for the construction of the units of the National Housing Movement Plan is supposed to be done from the land of national lands and adding them to urban lands and another part of changing the use of agricultural lands. Two methods that have many consequences and have provoked many criticisms.

Converting agricultural land to residential land

One of the complaints and criticisms is related to the head of the research institute for the improvement and preparation of seedlings and seeds. He informed about this: “170 hectares of fertile research lands of the first grade and two institutes have been unavailable for urban development in the last two decades. “In fact, every day we see some government departments and various institutions trespassing on the institute’s research lands, and to pursue the issue in court, we are involved with municipalities and police stations, and we must get justice.”

According to a report published by Khanaman media, he continued: “Without these lands, the possibility of research to introduce new cultivars in order to ensure food security will be impossible. Such a performance never happens in other countries. Research lands have been used for civil works such as highway construction and subway, so that the Mohammadshahr Karaj metro station was a grain research farm in the past.

Also, in the article 50 of the Housing Chapter of the Seventh Development Bill, it is stated: “The Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, in the implementation of the Law on the Leaps of Housing Production, is obliged to facilitate the access to suitable housing, especially for people without housing, in order to improve the quality and quantity of housing through Agreement with the owners of non-governmental lands without residential use in compliance with Article (8) of the law on the jump in housing production in relation to the provision of land for the implementation of support projects for housing construction or the construction of residential settlements by the private, cooperative and public non-governmental sectors with the priority of people’s cooperatives and in compliance with the Ministry’s criteria Road and urban development, including compliance with urban per capita and provision of required infrastructure and superstructure services, as well as other laws and regulations.

Experts believe that the performance of governments in the past decades in the field of allocating ready-to-build land has been regardless of the resources that should be preserved for the future so that the country and the people do not face various resettlement problems. Changing the use of agricultural land to build housing instead of using worn-out fabric is one of these mistakes that will show its effects in a few years.

The problems of annexing national lands to the national housing movement

The performance of the previous governments in the field of Mehr housing has led to criticisms and concerns regarding the annexation of national lands to the National Housing Movement project.

These lands are often located outside the current limits of the cities, and as a result, the lack of adequate living facilities makes it difficult for people to live in these units for a long time, and on the other hand, providing these facilities is very expensive for the government.

The story that exists even now about the buildings related to Mehr Housing and besides the welfare problems in some areas, it has also involved the residents with social problems.

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