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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
15. The Effects of Iran’s First Baby Boomers (1976–1986) on the Housing Economy of Iran and the Government Policies to Deal with Its Resulting Issues
Authors : Siavash Jamali, Manoochehr Dadashzadeh
Published in: Urban Change in Iran
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Iran’s first baby boomers were born between 1976–1986. The country’s annual population growth rate during this period is said to be 3.9 %, which means 16 million people were born within ten years. Population in the first and final year was recorded as 33 and 49 million respectively. Nowadays, there are roughly 16 million 25–35 s in need of residential units, causing extra demands for living places in the housing market and leading to high inflation in the housing economy, and house prices are bound to significantly soar. In this chapter we discuss the impacts of this growing demand for the housing economy, and show that the government solutions for this problem, such as new towns and Mehr Housing Project (Maskan-e-Mehr) are not successful owing to the fact that these solutions are just emphasising on building houses, ignoring other vital aspects of housing projects (such as services, creating job opportunities and the like). Furthermore, we provide some remedial suggestions for these ongoing policies.