Agenda: Developing infrastructure for children’s rest and recreation, building rental housing for specialists in the countryside, implementing the programme of resettlement from dilapidated houses.
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks
Marat Khusnullin’s report on implementing the programme of resettlement from dilapidated houses
Excerpts from the transcript:
Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, colleagues,
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers
Let us start with an important issue that concerns children’s rest and recreation. We discussed this matter in detail with Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko.
We continue to restore and develop the infrastructure in locations, where children usually spend their vacations. Professional tutors and mentors engage with them there to ensure that their summer is exciting and useful health-wise. The programme to create infrastructure of this kind has become highly relevant, with increasingly more Russian regions joining it. One hundred and fifty new buildings for more than 100,000 accommodations have been put into operation.
The Government will allocate an additional 1 billion roubles to build another 30 or so living premises for almost 1,400 children. These funds will be made available to 13 regions.
Also this year, we are breaking new ground by overhauling canteens and first-aid posts at children’s summer camps or sanatoriums. A number of Russian regions are already involved in the effort.
We will continue to do whatever is necessary to enable each child from any part of our country to get a modern, high-quality education, have a good rest, and build up their strength before the new academic year.
The next item on the agenda is supporting housing construction in the countryside. As our President said, the integrated rural development programme must be continued. This is necessary for the people and for this country at large. The Government will go on creating conditions for infrastructure renovation in localities, the more so since the agricultural industry is increasingly becoming a high-technology affair. Accordingly, it requires educated young specialists, who need a house or a flat of their own. There is a demand for favourable-term rural mortgages.
Providing rental housing is yet another tool that will help to attract skilled professionals to the countryside, where permanent residents with a job will be able to rent housing under a lease agreement. It will also be possible to redeem those houses or flats subject to certain conditions, the most important of which is that the redeemers continue to work in the countryside.
It is being planned to build about 19,000 square metres of housing in 18 regions within the next one and a half year to be leased under these terms. Today, we will allocate nearly 1.5 billion roubles for these purposes.
We hope that this measure will expedite the solution of personnel problems in the countryside and help people, including families with children, to improve their housing conditions.
Next topic: During our recent working visit to the Chechen Republic, we discussed in detail the progress of the programme designed to curtail the amount of dilapidated houses. It is important to do whatever is possible to enable as many people as possible across the country to move to comfortable, safe and modern flats as early as possible. This is an extremely sensitive issue as far as our citizens are concerned.
At the President’s instructions, we are taking measures to speed up the resettlement from the housing that became unfit for living before 1 January 2017. In this context, we are providing regions with forward funding. This task should be fulfilled in full before the end of this year.
A number of regions have finished implementing this programme ahead of schedule and are beginning to resettle the buildings that became unfit for living in the next five-year period, that is, after 1 January 2017.
Mr Khusnullin, please give us the details of proceedings in this regard.
Marat Khusnullin: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.
The relocation programme for residents living in dilapidated housing continues ahead of schedule.
This year, as part of the federal project on steady reduction of unfit housing under the Housing and Urban Environment National Project, we are completing relocation from the housing qualified as dilapidated before 1 January 2017.
A significant part of regions has already completed the programme early. These include 41 regions. In particular, the Republic of Chuvashia, the Vladimir, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Novosibirsk, Smolensk and Orel regions, as well as the Nenets Autonomous Area and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area have completed the programme since the beginning of 2024.
This progress became possible thanks to two factors. First, priority funding. As you know, in 2020, the Government provided regions with an opportunity to receive priority funding from the budget that was allocated for the upcoming years, and relocate residents from rundown housing at the earliest opportunity.
Second, the region’s own budgets. About 25 percent of the residents relocated since 2019 to date have been able to improve their living conditions thanks to the regions’ local renovation programmes that did not rely on federal funding.
I will remind you that under this federal project, we planned to relocate about 560,000 people from a total of 10 million sq m of dilapidated housing before the end of 2024. We have achieved both goals, including thanks to the local renovation programmes. As of now, 726,000 people have moved from 12 million sq m of rundown homes.
This means that we have outdone our plan by more than 2 million sq m. The programme is not finished and these results are still to grow.
Our next step is to proceed with a new programme that covers housing that was qualified as dilapidated between 1 January 2017 and January 2022.
It should be noted that the regions that have completed the first renovation programme are not stopping at current progress. Twenty-two regions have already launched a new programme – namely, the Rostov, Orenburg, Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Chelyabinsk regions, the Republic of Karelia and the Nenets Autonomous Area.
We have relocated almost 33,000 people from 640,000 sq m of substandard housing under the new programme to date.
We continue to look for opportunities to speed up the relocation from dilapidated houses. One of the promising mechanisms is complex development of territories that allows upgrading urban housing and relocating residents from unfit buildings while also creating necessary social, road and utilities infrastructure. We are focusing on improving the complex development projects and have adopted several regulations to streamline this mechanism for responsible parties and to make it more appealing for participants.
Starting next year, dilapidated housing residents will be relocated under a new national project, Infrastructure for Living.
According to the Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly, 330 billion roubles will be allocated from the federal budget to continue this renovation programme.
Right now, we are working on a new programme that will be approved before the end of the year. We are considering new approaches to relocation. Specifically, we seek to clarify dilapidated housing qualification rules and regulations. We also want to change the mechanism of pricing dilapidated housing. Other measures include ensuring that citizens’ rights to housing and state support during relocation from rundown homes be guaranteed. We are attracting non-budgetary loan capital and increasing the effectiveness of major renovation programmes for residential buildings.
I want to emphasise that most residents of dilapidated housing would not have been able to move to decent-quality housing without state support. So, I would like to thank the President, you, Mr Mishustin, and members of the Government for close attention to this problem. In cooperation with governors’ teams, we have managed to complete this programme ahead of schedule.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you, Mr Khusnullin. It is very important to scale up best practices to the entire country. Please keep an eye on this matter.
