They are lying. It is not people who are renting the villas who partition them. It is the Qatari landlords who do the partition or authorize agents to do it. Cracking down on partitioned villas means that both tenants and their employers will have to fork out more money to rent standard houses/apartments. In other words, Qatari households relying on the rent of an extra villa will lose the extra income, while greedy businessmen will enjoy a new influx of families looking for accommodation and will therefore be able to raise the prices again and make everyone's life difficult.
A fair solution to the issue would be for the government to build more affordable housing in Doha (not Al Wakra or Al Khor) or incite Ezdan and others to do so. There is a ton of empty parcels in Ain Khalid, Abu Hamour and other places that can be used to build affordable Ezdan-type accommodation.
They are lying. It is not people who are renting the villas who partition them. It is the Qatari landlords who do the partition or authorize agents to do it. Cracking down on partitioned villas means that both tenants and their employers will have to fork out more money to rent standard houses/apartments. In other words, Qatari households relying on the rent of an extra villa will lose the extra income, while greedy businessmen will enjoy a new influx of families looking for accommodation and will therefore be able to raise the prices again and make everyone's life difficult.
A fair solution to the issue would be for the government to build more affordable housing in Doha (not Al Wakra or Al Khor) or incite Ezdan and others to do so. There is a ton of empty parcels in Ain Khalid, Abu Hamour and other places that can be used to build affordable Ezdan-type accommodation.