The companies will submit a proposed plan in this regard to Transport and Urban Development Ministry to be reviewed within a week, IRNA reported on Saturday.

Last week, Transport and Urban Development Minister Rostam Qasemi held a meeting with representatives of mass construction companies to discuss details of future cooperation. During the meeting, he announced the government’s support for the private sector investors who intend to enter the construction market.

Back in August, the deputy head of Mass Construction Association Iraj Rahbar said the country’s contractors are capable of constructing one million housing units a year if the necessary funding and land is provided.

Mentioning a plan for the construction of one million affordable housing units per year by the government, Rahbar said: “Allocating land and financing are two important factors for the successful implementation of any housing project, and if these two are provided, building one million housing units per year will be easily possible.”

Commenced in winter 2018, the National Housing Action Plan aims to construct 400,000 small and medium-size apartments (70-100 square meters in size) across the country and particularly in Tehran, where housing prices have risen most sharply.

Nearly half of the total number of the said houses will be constructed in Tehran’s suburban “new towns” such as Parand and Pardis, respectively located in the west and east of the city.

Back in March, former Transport Minister Mohammad Eslami had announced that 510,000 residential units will be provided for the applicants within the framework of the National Housing Action Plan during the current year.

In September 2019, the registration of the National Housing Action Plan was started from Kerman Province. The second round of registration began in ten other provinces in November that year.

Applicants in Sistan-Baluchestan, Qom, North Khorasan, and South Khorasan provinces registered first and those from Kordestan, Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad, and Golestan came in the second stage, while from Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Hamedan, and Yazd provinces came in the third stage.

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Iranian citizens bought 4,600 housing units in turkey in the first eight months of this year, up 21 percent from the same period last year and about 47 percent compared to the same period in 2019, it said.

The purchase of Iranians’ housing in Turkey increased sharply since 2018 and the reimposition of the U.S. sanctions, especially the rapid drop in the value of the rial.

In the first eight months of 2017, Iranians bought only 424 housing units in Turkey, which means that the purchase of Iranians’ housing in Turkey has more than increased more than 10 times in the past four years.

Iranians also had the largest purchase of housing in Turkey among foreign citizens over the past two years, but as nuclear negotiations began and hopes of lifting sanctions increased, Iranians’ housing purchases subsided somewhat in a few months, and Iraqi citizens gained the first place among foreign citizens in buying properties in Turkey.

In August, Iranians again became the top buyout of housing in turkey among foreign citizens.

Setting a historical record of buying properties by Iranians in Turkey while statistics from the Central Bank of Iran show that housing purchases in Tehran have dropped nearly 40 percent over the past month compared to las August of 2020 and house prices have also grown by 34 percent.

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Speaking in the meeting of board of representatives of the TCCIMA, Khansari said that according to the latest reports, Iranians bought 7,189 properties in Turkey in 2020 and some 1,600 more in the first quarter of 202.

He said the country should work on this woe why the capitals are flying from the country for buying houses and properties in other countries.

He added that Iranians rank first among foreign buyers of real estate in Turkey and Russians and Iraqis are trailing Iranians, respectively. He noted some Iranians have also purchased houses and properties in countries like Tajikistan and Georgia, reiterating that this is an ill which threatens the economy.

Khansari noted the ratio of investment to the amortization was negative in 2019 and it was one of the main reasons for the flight of capitals from the country.

He said the only remedy for the national economy is production and production needs real support and removal of hurdles, expressing hope that the recent actions of Majlis and the government would not be a show-off and election campaign slogan.

Khansari went on to say that government’s meddling in economy is the most important hurdle in way of production and as long as these interferences and engagements are not halted, there will be no growth in production.

He also criticized the government for launching several headquarters for the control of the prices, saying that while Iran is among the world top ten chicken producers, the government has set up a headquarter for organizing the chicken market in the country, noting that while production of chicken is in the control of the private sector, its pricing and import of raw materials are in the control of the government.

Khansari went on to say that sudden orders and regulations are hurdles in way of the production and if the country wants to materialize the slogan of the year, there needs a strong determination.

He noted that with protecting the production through removing hurdles, the country should safeguard the domestic capitals and prevent the flight of capitals.

He also noted that the private sector companied have signed agreements for import of 6m doses of COVID-19 vaccines for vaccinating the workers.

He added that some experienced companies have taken action to import the vaccines despite vaccines have been mostly pre-sold and the market is almost empty of vaccine.

Khansari went on to say that the goal behind this move is to help the workers especially in the production field and expressed hope the owners of the businesses would accept the cost of the vaccines and vaccinating their staff.

He said the chamber and some related bodies have forecast 39 percent inflation rate for the current year and in case the government faces budget deficit, the figure may soar.

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“Some 1,550 residential units will also be given to families having two or more members with disabilities and women heads of family,” he added, IRNA reported on Thursday.

He also noted that out of 1,550 houses, 580 units will be provided to the families with physically challenged members, and the rest to the breadwinner women.

This year, the government has provided tremendous social support to the community by increasing the budget allocated to the individuals under coverage of the Relief Foundation and the Welfare Organization compared to previous years, he highlighted.

Mohseni-Bandpey went on to say that food packages will be offered to those in need under the organization coverage by the end of August.

Elsewhere in his remarks he noted that in case of medicine prices hike, the government will subsidize some 436 essential medicines.

In July, Mohseni-Bandpey said that all 11,000 Iranian families with two or more members with disabilities will be provided with houses by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2019).

He also added that it is planned to construct some 20,000 residential units for other people under the Welfare Organization’s coverage.

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