The number of vacant houses in Istanbul exceeded 400 thousand
■ Hülya Keskin Orucoglu
TürkiyeThe housing crisis is intensifying. The expectation of an increase for the post-electoral period was also manifested in rents. Landlords, who do not want to stick with the 25 percent rent increase limit, which is even below the inflation rate announced by the Turkish Statistical Institute of Turkey (TUIK), and who think rents will rise further , they gave up renting their houses and entered the waiting period. The number of vacant houses in Istanbul has exceeded 400 thousand.
157 PERCENT INCREASE
Chairman of Development Policy of the Iyi Party and candidate for deputy of the 1st region of İzmir Prof. Dr. Ümit Özlale also announced that, according to data from the Bahçeşehir University Economic and Social Research Center (BETAM), the rental prices per square meter increased 157 percent nationwide compared to last year. teacher. Dr. Özlale emphasized that this increase reached 474 percent in two years. Stating that the average rent is much higher than the salary increase, Prof. Dr. Özlale said: “It is a housing crisis in Turkey.”
teacher. Dr. Umit Ozlalé
Referring to the extension of the rule that limits the rent increase to 25 percent, Prof. Dr. Özlale said: “Landlords, who think that rents will increase further and do not want to stick with the 25 percent limit, cent, are starting to keep their houses empty. In an environment where inflation is 50-60 percent, according to TUIK figures, if you set a 25 percent upper limit on rent increases, the rental agreements will also go unrecorded. People don’t want to rent their houses. Mainly for these reasons, the number of vacant houses in Istanbul has exceeded 400 thousand.
Informal contracts increase
Emphasizing that the extension of the regulations, which limits the increase in rental housing to 25 percent, brings many problems. Dr. Ümit Özlale said: “This situation pushes people off the registry. This rate does not exist in the leases. If you want to solve your housing crisis, the last thing you want to do is set an upper limit on your rent. Rents are now increasing by around 150%. Also, if you want to solve the rent problem again, instead of building new houses, you have to calculate how to fill the empty houses.