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Department of sociology, Faculty of social science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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Department of sociology, Faculty of social science, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
Abstract
Numerous statistics and indicators illustrate that citizens' access to housing in Tehran is in a critical state. Institutional factors, especially its formal forms such as policies, laws, and regulations, play an effective role in shaping the rules governing the provision of housing and, consequently, limiting access to it. The purpose of this research is to answer the question of what role legal documents play in limiting access to housing in Tehran. The findings indicate that the themes and mechanisms that limit access to housing are found extensively and pervasively in the content of legal documents related to housing. Themes such as limited supply of residential land, scarcity of affordable housing, insecurity of tenure, privatization of public property, paving the way for speculative activities, unproductive accumulation, capitalization of housing, authoritarian planning, neutralization of the law through amendments and exceptions, and circumvention of anti-rent seeking laws. And that such restrictive themes are mainly and frequently included in documents that ultimately have more weight in the field of action, such as the master plan or the land use plan of Tehran city, It seems that the dysfunctions of institutional factors play a decisive role in preventing access to housing and its consequences such as marginalization, segregation, and polarization of the city. The method of the present research is content analysis, which, with an inductive approach, has extracted explicit and hidden themes of all legal documents related to housing from the perspective of lack of access to it.
Ebrahimi, A. M. , Azad Armaki, T. , Ghaffary, G. and Monavvary, N. (2026). Thematic analysis of legal documents governing the city of Tehran from the perspective of limiting access to housing. Sociological Review, (), -. doi: 10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
MLA
Ebrahimi, A. M. , , Azad Armaki, T. , , Ghaffary, G. , and Monavvary, N. . "Thematic analysis of legal documents governing the city of Tehran from the perspective of limiting access to housing", Sociological Review, , , 2026, -. doi: 10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
HARVARD
Ebrahimi, A. M., Azad Armaki, T., Ghaffary, G., Monavvary, N. (2026). 'Thematic analysis of legal documents governing the city of Tehran from the perspective of limiting access to housing', Sociological Review, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
CHICAGO
A. M. Ebrahimi , T. Azad Armaki , G. Ghaffary and N. Monavvary, "Thematic analysis of legal documents governing the city of Tehran from the perspective of limiting access to housing," Sociological Review, (2026): -, doi: 10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
VANCOUVER
Ebrahimi, A. M., Azad Armaki, T., Ghaffary, G., Monavvary, N. Thematic analysis of legal documents governing the city of Tehran from the perspective of limiting access to housing. Sociological Review, 2026; (): -. doi: 10.22059/jsr.2026.403226.2073
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