Roads Minister Says Large Lump-Sum Payments From Supported-Housing Applicants Are Not Feasible

Roads and Urban Development Minister Farzaneh Sadegh, speaking at a monitoring session on supported-housing schemes, called for every supported-housing project in the provinces to be resolved, according to Mehr News Agency citing the government information portal, published Monday, November 2, 2026 (11 Aban 1405). On the text messages that provincial roads and urban development offices send to applicants, she said demanding a lump-sum payment of 500 million or 1 billion tomans is essentially not feasible given economic conditions, and that even for projects 80 or 90 percent complete, the sums must be split across months in line with opening dates.

The minister added that the broker fee for the lowest-income deciles was removed in coordination with the Housing Foundation and that fees were reviewed project by project. She said land annexed to city limits was audited and that part of it could not be built on; the amount of usable land has been recorded in the Tem system and will be announced soon for coming registrations. Sadegh asked provincial managers to clear remaining issues over applicants' contributions, infrastructure and text messages at every site. These are the minister's remarks and instructions; no timetable was given for changing the messages or opening projects.