الحكومة تعدل قانون الإيجارات وميقاتي يرحب بالثقة ويدعو إلى عدم التأثر بالانتقادات

Allah yi7mee

Naharnet and OLJ, it would be nice if someone took the bother to explain what the new law is about! Usual journalism in Lebanon: So and so met and discussed something about something! Thanks for a very useful piece of information!

what is the new law about rentals.I understood nothing about the new law.
thank you for clarifications

FT this is the first intelligent thing you say

a major issue i see with this however is , do we have an adequate tennancy tribunal system in place to handle the overflow of claims that no doubt will follow from tennants and landlords accusing each other of wrong doings,non payment ect? if this is not enforceable and beauocracy free we may as well not have a law passed. Also on a good point, this may proide an indirect economic stimulus as it will create some work with all the restorations. Only problem here however is will this money stay in lebanon or go back home with all the syrian labour we have..That is a seperate argument all together :)

are they going to discuss also the protection of tenants with low income? will they be forced to leave beirut because they won t be able to afford new rents? will the new rents be controlled or any owner will be free to set the price as he wishes? are they going to force all the poor in beirut to leave and only those who can afford a rent in the city will stay?
will the state offices, which are rented under the old law, be affected?

i guess this new law , even if we need one, will give way to a new jungle law where anyone will do anything, pay or leave...

All they need to do is to come up with a law similar to the new one we have except to give it a maturity date 3 or 4 years from approval of the law. This way the tenants will try to work a new contract with the owner or start investing on a down payment to buy a new apartment. This way there would be a demand for new construction in the country, which in turn drastically improve the economy and get them to have their own owned apartments.

The free market system will dictate prices. It is not the responsibility of individual citizens to subsidies low income folks. It is the responsibility of the Government however to eradicate poverty and provide subsidized housing to low income folks.