EghtesadOnline: 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.
EghtesadOnline: The government has extended a total of 770 trillion rials ($3.37 billion) in financial assistance to households, businesses, the unemployed and the heath sector in the last fiscal year (March 2020-21).
EghtesadOnline: Workers' wages cover only 38% of their living costs in urban areas and 69% in rural areas.
EghtesadOnline: The Iranian Parliament’s proposal for “supply of essential goods to households” was approved on Wednesday.
EghtesadOnline: The transportation sector recorded a whopping inflation rate of 109.5% year-on-year in the seventh month of the current Iranian year (Sept. 22-Oct. 21) – the highest among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
EghtesadOnline: The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of "health and treatment" among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households increased by 23.6% in the 12-month period ending Sept. 21, which marks the end of the sixth Iranian month, compared with last year’s corresponding period.
EghtesadOnline: The average goods and services Consumer Price Index of food and beverages—among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households—in the 12-month period ending Sept. 21, which marks the end of the sixth Iranian month, increased by 21.7% compared with last year’s corresponding period.
EghtesadOnline: The average Consumer Price Index of "leisure and culture", among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households, in the 12-month period ending Aug. 21, which marks the end of the fifth Iranian month, increased by 30.5% compared with last year’s corresponding period.
EghtesadOnline: The Consumer Price Index of "leisure and culture" group, with a coefficient of 1.65%, stood at 284.4 in the month ending July 21, which marks the end of the fourth Iranian month, indicating a 7% rise compared with the month before—the highest monthly growth among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
EghtesadOnline: The average annual Consumer Price Index for the communications sector in the 12-month period ending July 21, which marks the end of the fourth Iranian month, increased by 7.3% compared with the corresponding period of the year before, which is the lowest among 12 groups of the basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.