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Qatar secures accommodation for World Cup visitors by evicting tenants

Qatar's Residents are required to renew leases from 20 to 35 percent.

After raising many questions about how the small Gulf state will accommodate more than 1 million fans expected to attend the World Cup the Qatari authorities made several suggestions, most of which were ridiculous is the event To Be The Host through which the Government of Qatar has proposed to the population that they host the fans of the World Cup in their homes, and sought help from neighbouring State Iran to open its Kish Island to fans and secure them accommodation during the days of the tournament.

Today’s new idea begins to emerge that the Government has not announced this time, but has been revealed by practices with foreign residents. Qatar refuses to renovate rental properties or to raise their prices to fictional limits, sometimes evicting tenants and asking them to find another place of residence.

Residents within Qatar say that they have started to receive warnings about changes to leases since last September. The first warning sign was an increase in annual rent. Residents usually expect a 10 per cent increase, but this year, they have been alerted that their rents will increase by 20 to 35 per cent.

This includes high-profile residences such as on Pearl Island, an developed artificial island, and rents for a one-bedroom apartment usually range from $1,600 to $2,500 per month.

The Pearl-Qatar

Doha residents also doubt that properties will double for any potential tenant from October to December 2022, if they prefer to stay in their home and do not leave.

Some residents say they have been forced to renew their leases for two years at high prices, under the threat of eviction, because the authorities know that after the World Cup, demand for real estate and its rents will fall markedly, and thus require current residents to pay doubly amounts to cover the inevitable real estate market recession after the end of the World Championship.

The media also says that hotels have closed their reservations, and some hoteliers say that most hotels in Qatar have already stopped receiving reservations after September.

Hotels in Doha

However, the researchers consider that all the promises made by Qatar regarding the number of hotel rooms it has prepared for the tournament, may be well below each expected standard.

Qatari authorities had promised about 5,000 new hotel accommodations before the beginning of November, plus in 2016, the gas-rich emirate allocated 18% of its GDP to infrastructure projects.

However, it resorted to hotel rationing and not allowing reservations, as it was not able to secure a sufficient number of rooms to accommodate fans.

People who bought tickets to attend the World Cup are wondering whether they will have a shelter in Qatar, or will they sleep in the open.

In addition, the housing crisis extends to the helpless foreign workers who have been subjected to various violations during more than ten years, and it seems that they will be exposed to another violation that torpedoes all of Tamim’s alleged reforms in the field of improving workers’ conditions.

According to workers who spoke to QLeaks unnamed for fear of punishment, employers raised wages and subsistence allowances, raising concerns that workers who built the World Cup might be forced to sleep in the open during the World Cup period because of their inability to pay for expenses, as well as a large segment of workers who complained about not being paid in recent months.

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