Eisenkot's Housing Plan: Long-Term Rentals and Limiting Brokers

The Yashar party presented a comprehensive housing market plan focused on upgrading planning systems, transferring authority to local governments and protecting tenants, rather than promising lower apartment prices.

The writer argues that the plan's starting point is correct, since the problem in Israel is not a shortage of plans but apartments actually being built and populated, but says execution will be much harder than the wording given the division among bodies holding planning and construction authority. He notes that it is refreshing to see a party focused on economics and everyday life in the midst of an election campaign primarily concerned with security and politics.