Laying mines in the capital's housing market / When the Ministry of Roads turns Tehran into a city of the rich! Farzana Sage Malvajard, the Minister of Roads and Urban Development, made a sincere promise back in the early days of our ministry: "Not only do we not have vertical development for megacities, but we don't even have horizontal development. " Now, with the new decision of the Council of Ministers under the title "Action Plan for Functional Monitoring and Decentralization of Tehran and Alborz", this approach has become an absolute nightmare for the residents of these two districts. A decision that completely prohibited the granting of permits for the construction of residential settlements and new cities in Tehran and Alborez for three years. As if the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development was tasked not to solve the housing crisis, but to block the last breathing holes of the capital's housing market. Until yesterday, the enemies of this nation tried to break the strength of society through an economic blockade, cruel sanctions and pressure on livelihoods; Now, housing decision makers are accomplishing the exact same goal from within with harmful decisions. Locking up the land supply in a province where more than 193,000 new marriages are registered each year means putting a hand down the throat of the younger generation who aspire to start a family and provide minimal shelter. The Ministry of Roads' apparent justification for this decision is "water and energy imbalance, traffic and air pollution"; But the designers of this policy made a fundamental miscalculation: the root of the permanence and concentration of the population in Tehran and Alborez is "employment and livelihood", not the existence of surplus housing! With the issuance of the circular and the construction ban, no population will leave Tehran; Instead, this policy will have two disastrous consequences: 1. The pressure for unbridled congestion sales: a government that claims to deny vertical and horizontal development, will eventually struggle against the pressure of demand and succumb to selling congestion and loading beyond the specified capacities; An action that directly destroys the services for the soul and brings the urban quality of life to the bottom. 2. Proliferation of marginalization and reproduction of social security crises: when the way to provide official, legal and affordable housing is blocked, households are pushed to the margins, ineffective connections and informal settlements.

Laying mines in the capital's housing market / When the Ministry of Roads turns Tehran into a city of the rich! Farzana Sage Malvajard, the Minister of Roads and Urban Development, made a sincere promise back in the early days of our ministry: "Not only do we not have vertical development for megacities, but we don't even have horizontal development. " Now, with the new decision of the Council of Ministers under the title "Action Plan for Functional Monitoring and Decentralization of Tehran and Alborz", this approach has become an absolute nightmare for the residents of these two districts. A decision that completely prohibited the granting of permits for the construction of residential settlements and new cities in Tehran and Alborez for three years. As if the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development was tasked not to solve the housing crisis, but to block the last breathing holes of the capital's housing market. Until yesterday, the enemies of this nation tried to break the strength of society through an economic blockade, cruel sanctions and pressure on livelihoods; Now, housing decision makers are accomplishing the exact same goal from within with harmful decisions. Locking up the land supply in a province where more than 193,000 new marriages are registered each year means putting a hand down the throat of the younger generation who aspire to start a family and provide minimal shelter. The Ministry of Roads' apparent justification for this decision is "water and energy imbalance, traffic and air pollution"; But the designers of this policy made a fundamental miscalculation: the root of the permanence and concentration of the population in Tehran and Alborez is "employment and livelihood", not the existence of surplus housing! With the issuance of the circular and the construction ban, no population will leave Tehran; Instead, this policy will have two disastrous consequences: 1. The pressure for unbridled congestion sales: a government that claims to deny vertical and horizontal development, will eventually struggle against the pressure of demand and succumb to selling congestion and loading beyond the specified capacities; An action that directly destroys the services for the soul and brings the urban quality of life to the bottom. 2. Proliferation of marginalization and reproduction of social security crises: when the way to provide official, legal and affordable housing is blocked, households are pushed to the margins, ineffective connections and informal settlements.