42% of Iranian Households Below Housing Poverty Line

Households falling below the fourth decile suffer from housing poverty, the latest studies conducted by Fardin Yazdani, the author of the Comprehensive Housing Plan of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, reveal. 
Income deciles are groupings that result from ranking either all households or all persons in the population in the ascending order according to income, and then dividing the population into 10 groups, each comprising approximately 10% of the estimated population. The first decile refers to those with the lowest income and the 10th to those with the highest income.
Housing poverty pertains to the inability of people in meeting minimum home standard. Households who are capable of paying the rents of a 60-square-meter home with minimum facilities, namely kitchen, bathroom and a building constructed with semi-permanent materials, are placed above the housing poverty line.
New calculations by Yazdani indicate that the population of households below the housing poverty line has reached 42% of total households, i.e., families in the bottom four deciles and a fraction of fifth income decile.