Speech at Meeting of Council for the Implementation of National Projects and Demographic Policy.Part 1
July 1, 2009
The Kremlin, Moscow
Выступление на заседании Совета по реализации национальных проектов и демографической политике.
1 июля 2009 года
Москва, Кремль
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Colleagues,
We have only one item on the agenda for todays meeting of the Council on National Projects, but it is a very important one the state of progress of the housing project and its future prospects. Helping our people resolve their housing problems is one of our biggest social priorities, and is something we have been working on and will continue to do so. The situation today makes our task more complicated, but we have a duty nonetheless to continue our efforts, and this is what prompted the decision to hold this meeting.
Last time the Council met (last December), we outlined three main areas of work for 2009-2010. I will go over them now and make some comments.
The first area is development of mass-scale housing construction. The amount of new housing brought onto the market increased by around 4 percent over the first five months of this year compared to the same period last year. At first sight, this seems to be not a bad result. But we are well aware that this increase is largely due to the pace of construction we reached last year and the work that was already underway. I would therefore like to hear today your views on measures we can propose to keep stimulating construction of affordable housing, the mechanisms we could use, and the results we expect to achieve.
Particularly attention-worthy are the experimental investment projects for comprehensive territorial development. These projects encompass not only housing but also social facilities and engineering and transport infrastructure. Our task is to put in place for these projects the necessary technical, legal, organisational and financial mechanisms. In doing this, we need to take into account the difficulties we are currently going through. But in our work on the national projects we already developed and tested these mechanisms overall and it must be said that, for all the difficulties, work on the housing project has gone ahead quite rapidly and confidently so far.
Carrying out the housing project also requires us, of course, to introduce new industrial housing construction technology. This is something we have discussed on a number of occasions. Our outdated house building factories need mass-scale replacement, and this will require the combined efforts of private investors and the state.
The Housing Construction Development Facilitation Fund is now up and running. The Government has already approved decisions to transfer land with total area of more than 500 hectares to the Fund for housing construction. This is just the beginning, of course.
Housing built on this land consolidated by the Fund needs to meet two conditions. First of all, it needs to be cheap. Of course, what constitutes cheap housing is a flexible notion, but the criterion we are using at the moment is that this year, it should not cost more than 30,000 roubles [around USD 1,000] per square metre. Second, it should be designed according to the highest energy-efficiency and environmental standards. These demands should be written into the standards and technical regulations currently applied. As far as I know, one of the main technical regulations in this area is currently before the State Duma. The quicker we get these regulations into force, the easier it will be to ensure that these environmental and engineering requirements are taken into account.
The second area in the national project was outlined as state support for demand on the housing market. This covers mortgage loans, fulfilment of the states obligations towards certain groups of the population, the obligations it took on a while back.
I remind you that one of my first executive orders was to ensure that all Great Patriotic War veterans and invalids are provided with housing by May 1, 2010. That is, all those who need their housing conditions improved and joined the queue before March 1, 2005. I want to ensure each one of these people individually that we will fulfil our obligations towards each and every one of them before the next Victory Day, that is, before May 9 next year.I have signed a federal law increasing the size of housing provided through federal subsidies. The norm will now be 36 square metres instead of 22. The money for this increase was planned in the budget a long way back, and so we need to start putting this measure into practice immediately, all the more so as a lot of time has already been lost.
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Д.Медведев.Выступление на заседании.01.07.09.Part 2by niknikolay121 views
holy Russia is only starting to built housing projects now, Canada had housing projects for the poor scence 1950
ilia2010100 1 year ago
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