The deputy of the IYI party from Mersin, Zeki Hakan Sydaly, said that taking into account the current price increase, if earlier civil servants on retirement could purchase 3+ 1 housing (with three bedrooms) on savings and bonuses from the salary of an official, now this amount is barely enough for ... one room. Not even a tiny apartment or studio.
This statement was made during budget negotiations with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change.
According to statistics, since 2010 – that is, in 12 years - housing prices in Turkey have increased 12 times.
Moreover, civil servants upon reaching retirement age are not that they can buy something worthwhile - they can't even afford to rent a house. But these are often people who have worked for the state all their lives.
The solution may be, according to the deputy, the provision of special housing loans to civil servants. Because in the current economic crisis, they are included in the list of particularly vulnerable categories of the population.
Convicts Hakan Sydaly recalled that even the option of purchasing preferential housing under state programs – for example, tens of thousands lira for several years in installments – will not save in a situation where a person's monthly income (sometimes intended for the whole family) is 5,500 TL: the minimum wage today. Almost half of the population of Turkey, Mr. Sydaly recalled, works just for the minimum wage, and of the remaining half receive only 25% more.
True, the previously existing bonuses to civil servants for rental housing caused discontent among the masses; but now everyone is in the same boat.
Perhaps another solution will be to provide retired civil servants with former lojmans, for a nominal fee.