Letters to the Editor
Keeping house rent under control
Monday, 18 December 2023
It is the house rent that eats up a lion's share of Dhaka city residents' monthly income. As a result of skyrocketing house rent, people have no choice but to squeeze their expenditures on basic necessities such as food, clothing and entertainment. There are no direct laws that can help control house rent and protect tenants' rights. The house owners are capitalising on this situation by increasing rents every year in the month of January. This hits the poorer tenants the hardest. It seems that nobody is worried about this.
The increase in the prices of all things has been affecting most people. We urge the authorities concerned to launch a platform through which tenants can lodge complaints against their landlords for hiking house rent every year in January.
Abu Elias Linkon,
Banasree, Dhaka,
[email protected]