The win-win game of the government and the nation with the construction of one-story houses/limitation of land for housing construction is an illusion

According to the economic reporter of Fars News Agency, last year, the former Minister of Roads and Urban Development announced in a TV program about the construction of one-story residential units in the National Housing Movement. Should they pay more to become a homemaker?

Last month, the most important economic promise of the government was stuck and the Minister of National Housing Movement was changed. The experience of the past year shows that if the government wants to move with the same hand, it will undoubtedly not be successful in fulfilling the promise of 4 million housing units in 4 years.

*A report of 2 decades of efforts to improve the housing situation

In this regard, for the first time in the country in the 80s, the government decided to provide housing in order to see a balance in the supply and demand of housing and as a result reduce housing prices. Accordingly, it put the construction of high-rise buildings and even the creation of new cities on its agenda. .

In the Mehr housing project, many families got shelter, but in some newly established cities, many social and cultural problems arose. In the 11th and 12th governments, the national housing plan was also on the agenda, but we did not see the mass supply of housing, so the decrease in supply and increase in demand greatly increased the price of housing.

In its election slogans, the 13th government pointed to the construction of 4 million housing units within 4 years. With the establishment of the government, the issue of housing movement was placed on the government’s agenda in the first days of the government’s agenda, and people who applied for registration were made. In a TV program, the former Minister of Roads and Urban Development announced the government’s plan to build one-story villa residential units in the form of the National Housing Movement Program and said: “In cities where there is no land problem, we should not go towards high-rise construction, and Bam is an example.” , because we did not have a land problem, we gave 200 meters of land to the applicants.

*Evaluation of land restrictions in the construction of a one-story house

This statement was echoed in the media, and the lack of land in the country was the first question in everyone’s mind, and is this an expert plan? The construction of one million houses requires 50 thousand hectares of land, according to the requirements of architecture and urban planning, the necessary infrastructure for each residential unit is 50 square meters per person, and if we consider each household as an average of 3.3, the infrastructure of each residential unit should be considered 165 square meters. According to the law, the allowed ratio of the infrastructure to the total land of each residential unit should be 60%, according to this, each one-story residential unit with a proportional size should be 275 square meters.

If the government plans to build 1 million housing units every year, it needs 27,500 hectares of land each year, of course, this amount is only for housing construction, and the area of ​​roads and public places should also be taken into account, and the ratio of residential units to roads It is also 40 to 50 percent; In general, we must say that the construction of one million residential units requires 50 thousand hectares of land.

A year has passed since the government’s life, but until today, the government has provided only 30% of the land needed to build one million residential units, and the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development must increase the speed of land provision more than in the past. It is possible to build 5 million residential units in the worn-out fabric according to the latest surveys conducted by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development to revise the comprehensive housing plan. Currently, more than 11.2 million people live in 76.4 thousand hectares of worn-out urban fabric in the country.

Therefore, with a minimal estimate and allocating every 150 square meters of land to a residential unit, it can be said that the worn-out land provides 5 million residential units, so it can play an important role in providing land.

* Illusion of land limitation and closing the boundaries of cities

In this regard, Mohammad Hamidzadeh, an expert in the field of housing, said: The illusion of land limitation was created due to the wrong policy of determining the urban boundary line, and if we refer to government documents, we will understand that a large amount of land in this urban boundary line is at the disposal of government agencies. contract.

This housing expert continues: There is a legal capacity to use government land for housing construction in the Housing Production and Supply Leap Law, and the Ministry of Roads should make maximum use of this capacity.

It is possible to build housing gradually in one-story units, considering that the construction of one-story housing is not dependent on the construction of other units, it is possible to build housing gradually according to the size of households. That is, families can build and live in a part of the house and gradually complete other parts of the building.

The Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development also states: Construction of low-density housing in the form of one-story villas in cities where we have land is the priority program of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. In other words, with planning, “gradual housing” will be built in these lands. In this regard, villa land will be provided to people for 12 cities, including Binaloud, Ivanki, Alishahr, Ramin, Shirinshahr, Alavi, Tis, Ramshar, Majlesi and Amirkabir.

In this regard, in Yazd province, about 100 one-story units have been delivered and 7,000 one-story units have been newly constructed, and 40,000 one-story units are planned to be built in the entire province.

In Yazd province, in the last round of Mehr housing, one-story units were also implemented in Taft city. In the new city of Amirkabir, in the Mehr housing project, the houses were built as one-story buildings with courtyards. Recently, new one-story construction projects were also launched with the presence of the Minister of Roads and Urban Development.

* The speed of construction in a one-story house is gradually high

The high speed of construction of single-story houses compared to multi-story houses in single-story construction projects is due to the fact that the projects start in parallel, the construction of any of the units is not dependent on other units and can start working independently.

In this method, if the applicant cannot complete his application for any reason, the construction of the remaining units will not be stopped. On the other hand, apartment construction is due to the serialization of the units in such a way that the higher units cannot be implemented until the lower floors finish the hardening operation. In inflationary conditions, building houses other than the villa style is a strategic mistake because the definition of multi-year projects causes inflation to be seen several times in the materials, which causes the projects to be stopped and their timing renewed.

According to experts in the field of housing, building a one-story house is a win-win game. Also, the government’s move towards housing villas can prepare the ground for the revival of Iranian Islamic architecture and change the concept of urban planning in Iran, because the construction of houses with courtyards is more compatible with Iranian Islamic culture than apartments.

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