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The Center for Development and Foresight Research hosted a specialized conference on “Controlling Inflation in the Housing Sector: Investigating the Effects of Supplying Building Materials in the Stock Market”. 

The scientific chairperson of the conference was Mr. Rouhollah Akbari, the special assistant to the Minister and the secretary of the housing group in the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. The speakers included Iraj Rahbar, chairman of the board of the builders’ association of Tehran province and the former chairman of the board of the builders’ association of Iran, Reza Shakouri, a faculty member of the department of architecture and urban planning of the University of Art, and Alireza Sadeghi, head of the division of commodity exchange supervision of the securities and exchange organization. 

Mr. Akbari, as the scientific chairman, opened the conference by emphasizing the government’s main goal of improving people’s quality of life. He mentioned that the Parliament had passed two laws in 2008 and 2021 to support the production and supply of housing. He explained that these laws had two main objectives: first, increasing the quantity of housing production and managing the supply and demand of housing. Second, reducing the cost of building houses so that even the less privileged and weaker members of society can become homeowners. He argued that laws should provide a financing system for this plan proportional to the annual production of 1 million homes and the construction of 4 million residential units in 4 years. He stressed that developments in production-related technologies and construction management were necessary to ensure that housing construction was not only quantitative but also affordable for weaker and average members of society. He concluded that reducing the total cost is essential for this movement. 

Mr. Rahbar, as the first speaker, referred to the laws passed to support low-income groups in increasing housing production. He stated: “All laws aim to support low-income groups in providing housing.” He added: “However, the method of supplying building materials in the stock market is currently under review and decision-making in the Parliament, without consulting experts in this field.” 

Shakouri, as the second speaker, shared his views on housing construction and the entry of building materials into the stock market. He said: “I do not agree with the government building houses for people. The government should empower people with measures such as employment creation so that individuals can build houses for themselves because if the government wants to build houses for people, it will have to do so indefinitely. 

Empowering people to build houses is a sustainable model for vulnerable groups, although it takes longer.” Sadeghi, as the last speaker, highlighted the advantages of the commodity exchange market. He said: “Offering cement and steel in the Iran Commodity Exchange has resulted in several benefits such as discovering fair prices with the mechanism of supply and demand, discovering market margin prices, preventing destructive rent-seeking and profiteering, strengthening the financial structure of producers, raising the possibility of implementing development plans, encouraging the private sector to invest and strengthening the capital market, eliminating intermediaries, and reducing prices for consumers.”