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The main goals of this programme are to increase the affordability of housing and to improve the provision of housing, including with due regard for state commitments on the provision of housing to certain groups of people, as well as to improve the quality and reliability of housing and utility services.
The programme includes the sub-programmes for creating conditions for the provision of affordable and quality housing to Russian citizens; creating conditions for the provision of quality utility services to Russian citizens; and ensuring the implementation of the programme.
The programme also incorporates the Housing federal targeted programme for 2011-2015 and the Pure Water federal targeted programme for 2011-2017. There are also plans to draft a Housing federal targeted programme for 2016-2020.
The objectives of this state programme are:
- to ensure the allocation of land for the construction of economy class housing;
- to create conditions for involving public non-profit housing associations and individual developers in housing projects;
- to promote the use of modern energy efficient and resource saving technology in housing construction and in the production of construction materials for housing construction;
- to promote the development of mortgage and utility infrastructure lending;
- to increase the affordability of mortgage loans for individuals;
- to promote the development of rental housing and the non-profit housing inventory for low-income groups;
- to relocate people from restricted administrative and territorial entities;
- to relocate people from houses declared as dilapidated before 1 January 2012;
- to fulfil government commitments to provide housing to the groups of people specified in federal legislation, and to provide housing and government support for the acquisition of housing to young families;
- to create conditions for increasing the volume of capital repairs and renovation of housing;
- to increase the efficiency, quality and reliability of public utilities, including by attracting long-term private investment;
- to encourage the rational use of utility services by the public;
- to provide the public with tap drinking water that meets the safety standards of sanitary-epidemiological regulations;
- to improve the relocation of residents so that the number of rooms in residential buildings corresponds to the number of individuals living there;
- to create a rental housing market and to develop non-profit rental housing for low-income groups;
- to reduce the average price of housing per square metre on the primary market, with due account for the deflator index approved for the construction industry in the given year (percent of 2012), by 20% by 2018;
- to increase the proportion of individuals who can buy or lease housing or build private homes with personal or borrowed funds;
- to improve the energy efficiency and environmental standards of housing and to ensure that they satisfy the requirements of such groups of population as large families, senior citizens, people with disabilities, etc.;
- to increase the public’s satisfaction with the standards of housing and utility services;
- to reduce losses during the production, transportation and distribution of utility resources to EU standards.
The programme is to be implemented in three stages: Stage One (2013-2020), Stage Two (2016-2017) and Stage Three (2018-2020).
This programme provides for building economy class housing and infrastructure on land plots adjacent to large cities, as well as on land allocated to state organisations that are not used or are used inefficiently. The interest rates on mortgage loans are to be reduced, and mortgage lending is to be increased to 868,000 loans per year by 2020. The Government is to subsidise loan programmes for some groups of people such as young families and public sector workers and to develop the market of affordance rental housing. The programme calls for rental housing to make up 10% of the overall inventory of new apartment blocks by 2020.