Bad Housing on the Rise

The government’s active involvement with rental market is inevitable, as a significant proportion of tenants are financially vulnerable people. Rental housing should be viewed as an effective way to provide housing for low-income households, says Ghazal Raheb, a housing and urban development researcher, in an article for the Persian economic daily Donya-e-Eqtesad. 
A translation of the text follows: 
The rate of renting households has been on the rise in recent years. In the years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, that rate decreased from 15% in 1976-77 to 12%, thanks to the widespread supply of land. But later it saw an uptrend, so much so that according to the Statistical Center of Iran, it reached 23% in 2006-7, 27% in 2011-12 and 32% in 2019-20.  
In recent years, the average renting household rate has exceeded 40% in Iranian cities and over 50% in Tehran.