Dungeon-like Apartments with Exorbitant Rental Fee

Safe, livable in the country right to shelter it’s getting harder every day. It is almost impossible for a family living on minimum wage to live in a relatively good neighborhood anymore. Middle-income people, such as white-collar workers and public servants, have almost as a result of increasing rents. They invest half of their salary on rent.

sahibinden.com. When we look at the sites such as Starting from at least 3000 liras looks. However, the minimum wage in the country is 2825 liras. According to the data of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, 41 percent of registered workers in Turkey are trying to live on the minimum wage.

As a result of the excessively increased rental prices in the last year, 10.000 TL is being asked even for this 1+1 flat.

Moreover, as claimed not luxury eitherAn average apartment.

In Istanbul, the rent of rooms the size of a tomb, without windows, without even ventilation, and where a bed and a closet can barely fit, has risen to 900 TL.

A dungeon that even a cockroach would not want to live in.

It’s a joke but true: There are even those who want to turn the balcony into a room and rent 2500 TL.

The cost of a clean animal feeding area by its owner is 1500 TL!

1500 TL rent is requested for this strange thing in Beşiktaş.

There is something rented out there, but exactly what it is is a mystery.

Decent bathroom of a 3500 TL house in Istanbul.

1500 TL is requested for this house in Üsküdar.

Realtors are making fun of it now.

In social media, the reactions against rental prices are increasing day by day.

According to a study, the annual rent increase rate reached 50.7 percent in Istanbul, 31.8 percent in Ankara and 30.9 percent in Izmir.

With the announcement that face-to-face education will be introduced in universities, students are also looking for a house, while the already exorbitant rising Rental prices are rising even higher.

The exorbitant increase in rents in metropolitan cities leads people to different searches. As it became difficult to rent alone, the number of people looking for a flatmate increased.

Having more than one person living in the same house, joint payment such as rent, bills and dues has been a common practice for a long time, especially among students. Having difficulty in paying the increasing rents in metropolitan cities alone single people also find the solution by looking for a roommate like students.

Single people working in a job used to live alone and try to establish their own order, but the increase in rents in recent years has resulted in low income among these segments. looking for a roommate started to lead more.

A signature campaign was also launched on change.org on social media with the title of “Use Limits on Rents”.

Reaching 50,000 signatures in a short time in the campaignIt is demanded that legal regulations regarding rent control in Turkey, which are implemented in various countries of the world, be made quickly.

So what are the reasons for the increase in rents so much?

Findings and recommendations of Ali Kurt, general manager of a private construction company:

1. Construction costsDue to the increases above the inflation and high interest rates, it became difficult to buy a house and the demand for renting increased.
2. Istanbul’s population growth ratena, undocumented immigrant/refugee/asylum-seeker etc. population added! The supply-demand balance in the housing sector was shaken.
3. With the increase of earthquake awareness among Istanbulites, the need to relocate to solid housing increased, which disrupted the supply-demand balance in certain regions.
4. Meri will pave the way for social housing in plans public lands have also reached the stage of exhaustionThe inability to produce enough social housing due to the lack of capacity has weakened the hand of public institutions in regulating the market!

So what can be done in the face of this situation?

1. First of all, immigrant/refugee/asylum-seeker etc. population must be controlled.
2. Now, not only Istanbul and the Marmara region, but also Anatolian cities are turned into attraction areas with new investments. people need to be encouraged to reverse migration!
3. In Istanbul renewal of risky building stock Alternative financial incentives should be developed. Thus, the construction industry will survive, and more importantly, Istanbul will be ready for a possible earthquake.
4. Increasing the supply is not the solution to decrease the prices of rental or sale houses. I say this as the manager of a company whose main field of activity is housing production! Our city does not have the strength to withstand an uncontrolled construction. The crisis in the housing sector cannot be solved with only low-interest loan campaigns. Increasing the housing supply is deepening the crisis. Because we are facing a sociological crisis that is more effective than the economic crisis.

It seems that rent prices will not decrease unless an effective intervention is taken.
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