VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired a meeting on the national project for good and affordable housing-one of the practical endeavours to implement the Government Activity Guidelines through 2012.
Vladimir Putin's opening address:
Esteemed colleagues,
This meeting has been convened to discuss practical proposals to implement the national project for good and affordable housing.
Active housing construction belongs to top national priorities, as everyone knows. The financial crisis should not make the population bury their plans and aspirations in this sensitive sphere. That is what we proceed from. Those who have intended to buy a flat or build a private house should retain the opportunity.
Construction industry promises to be one of the vehicles of Russian economic progress even during production depression.
We have announced this year's statistics already. Investment in various housing programmes will amount to 440 billion roubles in 2009, the money coming from federal, regional and local sources, the Housing Mortgage Crediting Agency, and the Housing and Utilities Reform Fund. If we take capital repair allocations into account, the funding will make record-setting 500 billion roubles.
Such financing will help us to make a breakthrough in settling the housing problems of war veterans, military officers, people employed in the Far North, young families and some other population groups. We will also afford to carry on the construction of the municipal infrastructure and highways reaching new residential neighbourhoods. We will also continue mortgage crediting and the resettlement of dilapidated house dwellers to the extent affordable during the crisis.
Naturally, all these problems demand a multipronged attack, which should include guarantees of just price formation, and active use of auctioning in the purchase of housing for state needs.
Anti-crisis measures in the housing sphere should be implemented simultaneously with the above-to finish the construction of multiple apartment buildings started earlier, and help debtors who have lost jobs or whose earnings have fallen drastically to reschedule their mortgage loans.
However, all those steps do not suffice to implement our plans fully.
We need to launch new fields of the housing project this year, as we have planned, and start reclaiming vacant and misused federally owned land plots. An ad hoc fund for the promotion of housing construction has been established with this purpose. Active cooperation with the regions has helped the fund to obtain information about approximately a thousand such land plots, with the total area of a million hectares.
We have arranged smooth interaction with natural monopolies, and are negotiating with banks for crediting communal infrastructural construction. As the result, the first land plots can and must be fully equipped for construction within a few months, with an emphasis on building low-rise homes.
These new houses must combine high quality and reasonable prices. Small houses built according to the latest environmental and energy-saving standards will cost no more than usual flats in multifamily high-rises. Some such low-rise houses will cost even less, as you and I have seen in certain parts of Russia.
I stress once again-the project envisages not luxury single-family houses of several hundred square metres each but highly sought small economy-class dwellings.
But then, the demand of reducing costs through cutting-edge technologies also fully concerns the construction of traditional multifamily high-rises.
Let us discuss it all in detail now.
