Parliament should intervene in the rent crisis

The housing crisis in Türkiye is deepening. While the rise in rents reaches 800 percent in three years, the regulation that limits the increase in rents for residences to 25 percent continues to put tenants and owners face to face.

The CHP deputy in Istanbul, Suat Özçağdaş, pointed to the Assembly for the solution of the problem. Özçağdaş demanded that the Assembly investigate the exorbitant rent increase and take action on it. Özçağdaş emphasized that ‘social peace’ has disappeared due to the increase in housing rent, which was paid from 1,700-1,900 TL in 2019, to 15,000-17,000 TL.

In the investigation proposal of the CHP deputy in Istanbul, Suat Özçağdaş, attention was drawn to the details of the problem. Özçağdaş underlined that rent increases were getting out of control in the movement, saying: “Due to the economic crisis in our country, the intense refugee migration and the latest earthquake, our citizens have been left alone with a deep housing crisis. . Due to the housing crisis and exorbitant rent increases in the cities and metropolitan cities, especially Istanbul; “Minimum wage workers, students, civil servants and retirees have become unable to bear rent increases,” she said.

THE BORDER DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM

Suat Özçağdaş, who said: “The 25 percent rent increase limit offered as a solution has pitted landlords and tenants against each other,” said Suat Özçağdaş, “This situation has led to an increase in demands for determination of the rent, incidents that resulted in injury and death between both parties, and the loss of social peace.”

Suat Ozcagdas

‘4 years ago the rent was 1,963 TL’

Suat Özçağdaş from CHP, recalling the rents in 2019 in Istanbul, said: “While the average rental rate for housing in Istanbul was 1,963 TL in May 2019, rents increased by 707 percent in May this year and reached the 15,847 TL. It went from 1,121 to 9,422 in Sultanbeyli, from 1,500 to 14,850 in Ümraniye, from 2,142 to 17,257 TL in Üsküdar. In 2019, the minimum wage is 2,020 TL, and in 2023, the minimum wage is 8,506 TL,” he said.