In Togo, more precisely in Lomé, it is a real combatant course to rent an apartment. With population growth, demand far outstrips supply. And the owners of the houses (knowing well the commercial system of supply and demand) take advantage of it to increase the rent as they see fit. The intervention of real estate agents commonly known as direct sellers still makes the bill very salty to the candidates for rental. The phenomenon is gaining more and more momentum during these great holidays. In a statement released on Thursday, July 20, 2017, Martin Luther King Movement (MMLK) returned to the subject. He lambasted this anarchic fixation and abusive rent increase in Togo. The MMLK of Pasteur Edoh Komi asks the Togolese government to clean up the real estate sector. The press release in its entirety!
Anarchic settlement and excessive and abusive increase in rents in Togo: The Martin Luther King Movement is indignant at the phenomenon and urges the government to clean up the sector
The right to housing is a fundamental human right. The promotion, protection and defense of this right must be ensured and guaranteed by the State. This right to housing is acquired either by property, or by lease or lease. However, it is constantly jeopardized by the owners of the buildings and constitutes a combatant course for the citizens especially in terms of rental.
Indeed, in Togo there are more tenants than owners, but the rental sector is neither protected nor insured and sanitized. Consequently, there is sadly anarchy, exaggeration and abuse in the fixing of rents And the amount of bonds in proportion to the number of months in advance of the owners, who, concerned only by their interests and their immoderate desire to derive excessive profit from being generated from them by their real estate, do not care Most of the improvement and maintenance of the living environment.
The other aspect, which is unworthy and unhappy with more than one, is also the irregular and abusive increase of rents according to the humors of these greedy, greedy, greedy proprietors. In the absence of formal regulation, rates vary and within five to ten years, the increase can exceed half of the main rent (more than 50%), an unprecedented surge.
To justify their dishonest and petty attitudes, these owners unanimously evoke the surge and high cost of building materials, while some houses were built in the previous years where everything was bought at ridiculously low prices.
The MMLK, worried by the indescribable and vertiginous extent of the phenomenon as if law and justice have hardly any right in Togo, calls on the government to act now to avoid the shocking reactions hitherto contained by the tenants.
MMLK believes that the new land code will take into account these lease and rent concerns in order to ensure reliable and sustainable regulations.
The MMLK asks the owners of the houses to show humanism, friendliness and to the tenants without which the buildings would be empty and unoccupied.
President,
Lomé, 20 July 2017
Pastor EDOH KOMI
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