Information newspaper: Increasing construction alone will not lower housing prices in Tehran * In a report referring to the rising trend of apartment prices in Tehran in the last century, the daily information stated that the average price per square meter of new housing built in the capital's central neighborhoods rose from 80 Rials to approximately 300 million tomans. Housing prices continue in the cities around Tehran; While the districts of Tehran and Alborz have a total of about 17 million permanent residents and three million floating residents and they inhabit almost a quarter of the country's population. The concentration of the population in this area in the last five decades, in addition to the increase in demand for housing, increased the pressure on water, electricity and gas resources and worsened economic, social and environmental problems. According to this report, reducing the population concentration in Tehran and Alborez and a more balanced distribution of the population in other districts can help control housing demand and prices, along with other policies.