Housing Poverty in Iran: Poor Social Policy

Housing Poverty in Iran may be interpreted differently for urban and rural areas. In urban areas, it reveals itself in informal settlement and is escalating. But in rural areas, it is usually due to poor construction material and structure, and also the number of rooms. In general, poverty is more widespread in rural areas and housing poverty is more so. In this article, I intend to show that the lack of a social policy for providing housing, that means the shortcomings of housing planning and social security systems and accord between the two, is the main cause of the governments inability to alleviate housing poverty and subsequently to establish social justice.