Examples of the privatization techniques we mentioned in the privatization of government companies and we will give an example of the privatization of areas of responsibility that are of a distinctly state nature.
Privatization of government companies
The following are examples of some of the privatization tactics we represented in Chapter Three:
Amidar Company - Sale of some of the assets
The essence of the company
The "Amidar" company was founded in 1949 to build housing estates to provide housing solutions for new immigrants arriving in the State of Israel. In addition to construction, the company was assigned to engage in apartment rentals, assistance, financing, and mortgages for tenants. Later, the "Amidar" company expanded its goals and began supplying additional eligible groups.
Financial situation
The company, whose goals did not include the goal of maintaining profitability, maintained a budget balance until the 1980s. In the 1980s, the balance was broken because of the difficult economic situation (these were years of hyperinflation, of the bank stock crisis and the growing national debt), an ever-increasing stock of apartments (300,000 apartments in the early 1980s compared to 14,000 apartments in 1952), high maintenance expenses and difficulties in collecting rent and erosion of rent.
Factors privatization
1. Laying a foundation that owns the apartments will strengthen the tenants' willingness to cultivate their living conditions and quality of life and improve them.
2. Management and collection difficulties - the company found it difficult to collect the rent in full and in order
3. Difficulties in supervision - difficulties in preventing improper use of apartments, illegal invasion of property, construction irregularities and other offenses.
4. The low rent that can be charged from the tenants due to the nature of the population and the living environment.
5. Burden of increasing maintenance expenses.
Privatizations
The company uses the technique of selling the properties as its privatization policy throughout its years of existence - that is, one of the company's goals is to reduce its inventory of apartments by selling them to private hands in general and especially to the occupants of those apartments using different incentives.
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