Each Tehrani’s share of the house; Only 16 meters – Tejaratnews

According to Tejarat News, the houses in the big cities are getting closer to the old saying “living in an apartment, living in a matchbox” and these days, citizens are buying houses of 35-35 and even 25 meters to save capital and rent to families. It is booming, while buying these houses has become a dream for millions of people. This happens in a situation where the plan to build 25-meter small-scale houses was doomed to failure and there is no news of these houses being built in Tehran. Although a 20 to 25 meter ceiling has been desired by millions, the construction of 25 to 40 meter apartments has been proposed since the end of 2008. The following year, the mayor of Tehran at the time, Pirouz Hanachi, announced that the municipality and the Ministry of Interior had recently agreed on it, and apparently it had been approved by the members of parliament, and this plan would be implemented soon.

However, due to the opposition of many experts and elites, the mayor of Tehran preferred not to implement it. However, the exponential increase in rent and property prices has caused not only tenants in big cities, especially Tehran, to be pushed to the outskirts of the city, but even there they are forced to live in 30-40-50 meter houses. These reports become more serious when we know that according to the published statistics, between 50 and 60 percent of Tehranis are renters. According to the latest statistics published in this census, 17% of the renter households in Tehran live in units of less than 50 meters, of which 28% are two-person households, 27% are three-person households, and 19% are four-person households. In other words, if based on this sample, we consider the average size of the household to be 3 people, the average size of each person will be about 16 meters. This statistic is from a few years ago, and today, this statistic has increased drastically.

However, this marginalization and the living of tenants in small-scale houses has caused many sociologists and psychologists to criticize the current situation and the harm that living in small houses brings to families. Although at the same time, Mousavi Beyuki, the then vice-chairman of the 10th Parliament Civil Commission, also warned about the occurrence of this phenomenon and the damages caused by it and said: “Surely, the design of small-scale houses (35 meters) has many social consequences, but it can be He used this plan to temporarily solve the problem of housing shortage, so that in the future, the needs of the country will be met by implementing large and standard plans.

All social dimensions of a phenomenon / house or matchbox?

Mostafa Iglima, the head of the Scientific Association of Social Work of Iran, is one of these critics, who said in an interview with “Arman Imoroz”: I remember that a few years ago, one of the representatives of the parliament presented a plan for the construction of 25-40-meter houses, which The proposal was also given the green light of the previous government. However, in addition to this, the high cost of rent has caused many tenants to go to the outskirts of the city and rent the same 30-40 meter houses with the money they have. Now, my question and other people’s question to parliamentarians and other trustees is how in a 25-meter space that cannot be called “home”, what is the minimum life that a family can live in? Has this respected representative lived for a night in a 25-meter or even 40-meter house – the number of which has increased these days – to know how difficult and exhausting it is to promote these houses and the living conditions in them? In the world, the square footage that a person should live in has a specific definition, where in the world is this square footage determined for the family and where does the idea of ​​building these houses come from? In a country like England, each person lives on average in 44 meters of residential infrastructure, which is about 26 meters per person in our country. Also, there should be one room for each child, but in which of the lower areas of Tehran, where there are many 40-meter houses, this per capita is observed that now you want to build 25-meter matchboxes for families outside the city?

Noting that such debates show that we have lowered the level of families as one of the main pillars of society, which are the place where children are born and the future makers of this country are raised, so that they are forced to live in these spaces, he says: “Undoubtedly, children who are born in these 25-meter houses, are innocent and deprived for life, because every day they have to see their parents fight and sometimes beat them, and because there is no space to play, they have to be beaten by their parents in case of the slightest noise. to eat Also, we complain about the increase in the divorce rate, if the differences between the husband and wife become more visible with the reduction of the living space, and the houses have become so small that the husband and wife have to stand next to each other and fight over any issue. Apparently, these houses are not supposed to be pre-sold to single people! The minimum price of these houses is more than one billion tomans and each meter is at least 40-50 million tomans. Which worker or single and employed person is able to provide this amount, how can he pay its installments with the state of the rights of companies and unions? On the other hand, if parents come to their child’s house, how can they spend a few days in that space that has no bedroom, no kitchen, etc.

The father of the social worker clarifies: In the world, they have come to the conclusion that in the lower areas of the city, where the size of the apartments is usually small, the apartments should not be more than four floors, because wherever there is a large population, there is a place for prostitution, drug sales and so on. There will be other social harms. In the past, we have seen many times that the families who bought these small apartments out of necessity but with a high population density, sold them to single people after a period of time when they were unable to live in them, and after a while to a place to promote prostitution and They have become drug dealers.

He continues by pointing to another example in this context: before the revolution, small houses were built for municipal workers around Shahreri and Aramgah Road, many of those families rented a room to others after a while and the house was roofed. they did and rented it, finally, it didn’t take long for those neighborhoods to become the center of prostitution and drug sales. Past experiences have proven that this plan is doomed to failure, and after a while some people were given loans and free land to build these 25-meter houses, then they are left alone until a new law comes again. Undoubtedly, if a representative in another country proposed such a plan, he would either be expelled from the parliament, or he would be asked what is the purpose of this plan that cannot be implemented. Why don’t the representatives think about the development of the suburbs and increase the number of small families instead of planning such proposals?

Source: Arman today