Which deciles spend their entire income on house rent?

According to Tejarat News, the degree of difficulty of renting in the capital is based on “the rate of allocation of monthly rents to RentIt was measured.

investigations the world of economy Citing the “minimum wage of 1400” and also “the average housing rent in the fall of 1400”, it shows that the cost paid by tenants living in the lower areas of Tehran last year for providing housing was equivalent to “one salary”.

Of course, this ratio is estimated to be 86% of “minimum wage” for all households living in the capital, including “working couples”.

The meaning of this completely unusual ratio between the cost of providing rental housing and the wages of tenants is that the low-income society has to invoice a number of monthly expenses, including “providing calories”, for financial doping and balancing between necessary expenses and minimum income, so that at the end of the month, afford the rent.

Last year, meanwhile, “high general inflation” and “very heavy food inflation” further reduced the financial power of renters for the low-income deciles.

To solve this problem, the housing policymaker has set a “rent ceiling”; An action that has recently become a problem in some countries.

Successful experience in this field specifies inflation Rent It will decrease only by reducing general inflation and curbing housing inflation.

The latest surveys regarding the situation of the rental market indicate that this market is out of the financial ability of tenants. The investigations and calculations carried out by regarding the average housing rents in 22 districts of Tehran and the share of rents from the minimum salary in 1400, show that in the fall of last year, on average, tenants living in the southern half of Tehran had to They had to pay a monthly salary to cover the monthly housing rent.

Surveys show that last year, the average monthly housing rent plus 3% of the deposit amount, in the southern areas of Tehran, on average, with one month’s salary for the head of a family of three (based on the minimum salary approved by the Ministry of Labor for the year 1400). equaled

New statistics of rent in Tehran

According to the latest announcement of the Iranian Statistics Center about the situation of the housing rental market in Tehran, the average rent plus 3% of the housing deposit in the fall of last year in Tehran reached 87 thousand tomans per square meter. In the fall of 1400, the average housing rent in 22 districts of Tehran increased by 40 percent compared to the same period of the previous year, i.e., the fall of 1399.

Of course, the 40% rent inflation is related to the latest report published by Iran’s Statistics Center on developments in Tehran’s housing market in the fall of 1400.

But the statistics and information published in the reports of the Central Bank of the developments in the housing market and Rent The city of Tehran, which has been updated until June of this year, shows a growth of around 50% in the rental rate last year.

Although 40% inflation in the housing rental market in itself shows the high rate of growth of the cost of renting in the capital, but the double pressure created on the tenants due to this inflation will be more clear when the average housing rent is compared with the salary of the tenant households. It is compared and reviewed.

The comparison of housing rents in Tehran based on the average rents in 22 regions with the monthly salaries of tenant households based on the minimum wages approved by the Ministry of Labor in 1400 shows the critical conditions of tenant households in the area of ​​providing housing rents.

The crisis is more intense in the south of the city

The crisis of providing housing rents, especially in the southern half of the capital, where the income level of households is much lower, shows itself more than in the northern areas of Tehran.

The average monthly rent per square meter of housing in the southern half of Tehran (areas 9 to 20), where most of the capital’s low-income tenants live, is equivalent to 4 million and 300 thousand tomans on average.

Last year, based on the minimum wage approved by the Ministry of Labor, the monthly salary of a head of a family of three was around 4 million tomans. These statistics show that last year, a person who heads a family of three spent an average of 100% of his salary on rent to cover the cost of living in the southern part of Tehran.

The calculations also show that in the whole city of Tehran, the average housing rent, based on the statistics of the fall of 1400, in households where both men and women were employed and had one child, was equivalent to 86% of the total salary of a couple for a month.

This ratio has taken a very large share of the monthly wages and salaries of households and practically means exiting the market. Rent It is affordable for low-income families.

Acute situation in regions 4 and 5

However, the average monthly housing rent in regions 4 and 5, which is a total of about 20% of all rental contracts concluded in the fall of 1400 in these two regions, is equivalent to 100% of the total salary of working couples (based on the minimum salary approved by the Ministry of Labor in 1400). Is.

In other words, if both men and women are employed, have a child and have earned according to the minimum salary approved by the Ministry of Labor in 1400, on average, all of their salary for one month should be used to rent housing in areas four and five of Tehran. They paid 20% of Tehrani tenants rented housing in these two high-demand areas of the capital last fall.

These statistics are obtained based on the calculation of the total housing rent in the form of monthly rent. It is natural that if part of the rent is given to the lessor as a deposit, the monthly rent will be lower.

This situation shows the high pressure of the cost of renting in Tehran, especially for the low-income groups who mainly live in the southern part of Tehran. The average cost of renting in the northern areas of the city is currently two to three times the minimum salary of employees and workers, but since the income of households in these areas is mostly high, the pressure of renting on them is less than the pressure of renting on low-income tenant households in It is the southern half of the city.

Increasing variable of rent pressure

Surveys show that an existing variable and economic reality indicates that the rent pressure is much higher than the ability and affordability of the tenants and more than what is observed by comparing the level of monthly salaries of households as well as the average housing rent.

This double pressure is especially greater in the southern regions. This variable and economic reality is related to the extreme level of general inflation, including inflation of food items.

In 1400, while the general inflation reached 34%, the total inflation for the lowest economic decile was more than 40%, and also the inflation of food items for this decile reached more than 90%.

In fact, last year, an economic equation was formed in the cost basket of tenant households, which resulted in a pressure higher than the financial capacity of tenants due to the increase in the cost of renting.