EghtesadOnline: Lawmakers ratified another section of next year's (March 2019-20) budget bill that allows Bank Maskan - the main housing bank - to reimburse 50 trillion rials ($400 million) of its debt to the Central Bank of Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Major Iranian home builders operating in rundown urban districts can now receive up to 1.1 billion rials ($10,000) in loans from the state-run Bank Maskan, also known as the Housing Bank , as per the government’s new policy to shift the focus of major builders to distressed urban areas and informal settlements.