One Villa – One Family In Dubai
Dubai Municipality has launched a campaign called “Let us protect our residential environment…together.” It is the culmination of a campaign it started in February 2006 to implement classification and codification of land use in the emirate of Dubai in order to prohibit labour and bachelor accommodation as well as multi-family housing in the residential districts. The move is as per the rule to protect the residential environment and strengthen the security components and social stability.
Omar AbdulRahman, Head of Building Inspection Section in the Municipality called upon all the nationals, residents, and owners of the buildings utilized by the above mentioned categories of people on the necessity to vacate them as well as stop the establishments that had been added illegally within 30 days of the publication of this announcement.
Stringent actions, including fines and stoppage of transactions, will be taken against the violators in coordination with other government departments and establishments and as per the rules of the Local Order No.3 of 1999 pertaining to organizing building activities in the emirate of Dubai.
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Even as the Dubai Municipality has made clear its one-month deadline to implement the ‘One Villa-One Family’ campaign, some of the landlords of the villas, surprisingly, seem unperturbed.
Their bait? Well, they say they have received “such warnings” in the past as well but no action was ever taken against them.
A landlord who has rented a villa for five years and has sub-let it to six families, is still willing to sublet it to people.
“It has been over eight months since this rule was put in place but we have not faced any trouble yet. We do not expect anything to happen in the future as well. It’s impossible to force tenants out of the villas in a month. However, if needed, I shall refund the entire rent to my tenants.”
Another landlord, who owns a villa in Al Rashidiya, confirmed he was still willing to rent out the premises on a monthly lease.
He has been served with a notice but one that he is not taking too seriously.
When asked what happens if he is forced to get the families evicted, he said it wouldn’t happen. ”
I do not rent my villa on a contract basis because I know it’s not allowed, but I assure you that there will be no trouble in the future as well,” he made clear.
It may not seem as an immediate cause of worry, but by the end of the month, many legal issues will crop up for the landlords and tenants.
Roohi, a Legal Consultant at Emirates Consultants, said the new rule would not be extended under any circumstances and clearly stated that sub-letting is a punishable offence.
“Sub-letting always involves a mediator who rents the villa to families. In the case of eviction, the landlord is involved, ” she said.
“He’ll have to refund the rent to the tenants. However, in sub-letting, no contract is involved so the tenant cannot file a case,” she said.
Omar AbdulRahman, Head of Building Inspection Section in the Municipality called upon all the nationals, residents, and owners of the buildings utilized by the above mentioned categories of people on the necessity to vacate them as well as stop the establishments that had been added illegally within 30 days of the publication of this announcement.
Stringent actions, including fines and stoppage of transactions, will be taken against the violators in coordination with other government departments and establishments and as per the rules of the Local Order No.3 of 1999 pertaining to organizing building activities in the emirate of Dubai.
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Even as the Dubai Municipality has made clear its one-month deadline to implement the ‘One Villa-One Family’ campaign, some of the landlords of the villas, surprisingly, seem unperturbed.
Their bait? Well, they say they have received “such warnings” in the past as well but no action was ever taken against them.
A landlord who has rented a villa for five years and has sub-let it to six families, is still willing to sublet it to people.
“It has been over eight months since this rule was put in place but we have not faced any trouble yet. We do not expect anything to happen in the future as well. It’s impossible to force tenants out of the villas in a month. However, if needed, I shall refund the entire rent to my tenants.”
Another landlord, who owns a villa in Al Rashidiya, confirmed he was still willing to rent out the premises on a monthly lease.
He has been served with a notice but one that he is not taking too seriously.
When asked what happens if he is forced to get the families evicted, he said it wouldn’t happen. ”
I do not rent my villa on a contract basis because I know it’s not allowed, but I assure you that there will be no trouble in the future as well,” he made clear.
It may not seem as an immediate cause of worry, but by the end of the month, many legal issues will crop up for the landlords and tenants.
Roohi, a Legal Consultant at Emirates Consultants, said the new rule would not be extended under any circumstances and clearly stated that sub-letting is a punishable offence.
“Sub-letting always involves a mediator who rents the villa to families. In the case of eviction, the landlord is involved, ” she said.
“He’ll have to refund the rent to the tenants. However, in sub-letting, no contract is involved so the tenant cannot file a case,” she said.
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Dubai Municipality has ruled out extending its unpopular ‘one villa one family’ rule to apartments, allaying fears of thousands of tenants that they could also be forced out of their shared accommodation, a senior official told Arabian Business on Tuesday.
The municipality on Oct. 21 brought in a ban on bachelors and multiple families sharing villas in Dubai on health and safety grounds after several labourers died in a fire at an overcrowded villa in the Naif areas of the city in September.
Officials have said previously the crackdown could be extended to shared flats at a later date.
Since the deadline thousands of tenants across the emirate have had to move out of apartments, with the municipality threatening fines of 50,000 dirhams ($13,600) for landlords and tenants found in violation of the rule.
“There are no plans for this [to extend the 'one villa one family' rule],” said Omar Abdul Rahman, head of building inspections at the municipality. “They [bachelors and multiple families] can stay in apartments.”
Rahman said while the ‘one villa one family’ rule was not being extended to apartments, the municipality would act on individual cases if tenants were found to be in breach of environmental or health and safety regulations.