Financial Tribune- Lawmakers have passed a clause regarding Social Housing Plan, stressing that it will be launched in 2017.

In the latest open session of Majlis, lawmakers approved a clause of the sixth five-year development plan (2016-21), which concerns preventing social harm and providing welfare, namely in the form of housing for low-income families, reports ICANA, the official news website of the Iranian Parliament.

They demanded that the plan be implemented as per the deadline�by the end of the first year of the five-year plan�which will be March 2017.

Social Housing Plan is a subcategory of the government�s Comprehensive Housing Plan that incorporates programs to provide low-income groups and those covered by state charities like the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and State Welfare Organization of Iran with affordable housing.