Suchergebnisse

The highlights of this report are the following: 1). Around one fifth of the poor household, i.e. 2.5 million families, live in rented homes. (Exhibit 1); 2). About 80% of these poor work in vulnerable occupations (Exhibit 2); 3). Amid COVID-19 lockdown, they are unemployed and facing lay-offs; 4). These households have to pay on average a minimum of Rs6250 to 6750 rent per month (Exhibit 4). We note that rents may be even higher; 5). The house owners cannot delay the rent receipts as they themselves are under the same situation of no income; 6). Therefore, federal and provincial governments' should include this segment of the society in existing relief packages and social protection schemes.