In a few lines, Representative Imad Al-Hout seeks, by proposing a repeated accelerated law, to resolve the decades-old problem surrounding the old rent law, by setting a clear date for the entry into force of the extension deadlines stipulated in Article 15 of the law, considering that the beginning dates back to the effective date of the law No.5/2014.
However, this proposal, despite its apparent simplicity, reflects a narrow and fragmented approach to a very complex issue, as it assumes that the problem lies only in confusion about time limits, thus ignoring that the essence of the problem does not lie in dates, but rather in a law that is not actually applicable, and its components have not been implemented, and it did not have the institutional and social structure that was supposed to balance the consequences of liberalizing old lease contracts on vulnerable groups.
Instead of this proposal addressing the complex reality resulting from years of state failure to establish a tenant support fund and activate the relevant committees, and instead of reconsidering the absence of guarantees stipulated by the law itself, it reduces the issue to determining the start date for the countdown to the eviction of thousands of families, without any consideration the social and humanitarian repercussions resulting from this, in light of the economic collapse and lack of housing alternatives.