Iran's arm raises the rents of suspended properties by 400%
English - Sunday 18 June 2023 الساعة 05:16 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen, exclusive:
Citizens benefiting from endowed properties (buildings, apartments, commercial stores, and agricultural lands) complained of the Houthi militia's harassment of them, and its raising the rental prices of the endowment's beneficiaries by 400% and other prices at the same time and place.
Citizens in the east of Taiz governorate, (the areas under the control of the Houthi militia) told "NewsYemen": The Houthi militia, after its inability to extract the notables of the endowment from them, resorted to other methods to harass them by raising rent prices.
They described that the Houthi militia forced them to pay a full year's rent in advance at the new rent price, or to give up the use of the endowment, which forced the majority of citizens renting from the endowments to give up the benefits of the endowment and hand them over to the Houthi militia.
The endowment sector, with its vast real estate properties in Yemen and its huge cash wealth, is considered a factor of great temptation for the Houthi militia, as the Houthi militia continues to seize public and private endowment funds by various means and harness it to serve its interests and annex the endowment funds to its private property.
The Ministry of Endowments owns areas of private land that have been allocated for government projects, as well as buildings that have been constructed and belong to the Ministry of Endowments, but the Houthi militia has disposed of them in the interest of their leaders.
Since the Houthi militia's coup against the state and the overthrow of its institutions by force of arms in September 2014, it began looting and spreading real estate and large areas of state land, and to obliterate its crimes, it resorted to burning the National Archives of the Ministry of Awqaf in Sana'a.
The militia has repeatedly carried out field campaigns in its areas of control to force citizens who benefit from the endowment, to vacate homes and shops belonging to the Ministry of Endowments and hand them over to people who manage the funds of the Houthi leaders.
