Discussion focused on the implementation of the Strategy for Developing the Construction Sector and the Housing and Utilities Infrastructure until 2030 with a forecast until 2035, and proposals for updating it.
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on developing the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on developing the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on developing the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure
Mikhail Mishustin chairs strategic session on developing the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure
Mikhail Mishustin’s opening remarks:
Good afternoon, colleagues,
We continue a series of the Government's strategic sessions.
Today, we will discuss the implementation of the Strategy for Developing the Construction Sector and the Housing and Utilities Infrastructure, which was adopted three years ago, as you remember. It is aimed at achieving one of our national goals, that is, creating comfortable and safe living environment.
First of all, I would like to say that the key indicators set for the first period – until 2024 – have been achieved. Many targets have been overfulfilled.
Since 2022, we have built over 400 million square metres of housing, or over 100 million square metres a year. As many as 570,000 people have been relocated from 10 million square metres of dilapidated housing. Nearly 170,000 apartment houses have been overhauled. The procedure for state technical registration of such housing has been upgraded. A relevant inspection instrument has been created for updating regional housing renovation programmes. Over 34,000 public spaces and areas around houses have been improved.
We have created a solid groundwork for the future and seriously increase the urban development potential of land plots. The investment construction cycle has been slashed in terms of days, documents and administrative procedures.
As for the housing and utilities infrastructure, it is one of the most painful issues for our citizens. We have built and renovated over 3,500 utility facilities and about 3,800 kilometres of utility networks, which has improved the quality of services provided to nearly 24 million of our people. However, the deterioration rate remains high in many regions, which calls for redoubling efforts.
In this connection, we have signed memorandums with federation entities as part of the utilities infrastructure modernisation efforts to set out the sides’ obligations, including when it comes to the implementation of investment programmes.
In the next five years, we need to attract about 2 trillion roubles of extrabudgetary funding for these purposes.
I would like to speak about challenges to the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure, primarily due to the decreasing demand for housing, including mortgage housing, and limited access to project finance.
To mitigate the risk of a decline in the number of new projects and housing construction permits, the Government has increased the low-interest mortgage reimbursement rate for lending organisations. Caps have been raised for the main groups of such mortgages.
Acting on the President’s instructions, we have launched a programme to subsidise the interest rate on project finance housing construction loans in small towns.
To protect citizens’ savings from unreliable companies, we have approved the use of escrow accounts in individual housing construction.
We will continue to provide low-interest loans to federation entities within the framework of the infrastructure menu, so that they can continue to create a comfortable urban environment and build facilities in the spheres of key importance for the people.
They can also use the mechanism of writing off two-thirds of budget loan debts for this purpose. Another 15 constituent entities of the Russian Federation have recently used this method.
It is important to continue doing our utmost to bolster housing and road construction, renovation of housing and utilities infrastructure, and improvement and further development of necessary infrastructure.
We must update the main provisions of the construction sector and the housing and utilities infrastructure development and adjust them to the Spatial Development Strategy and the national goals and measures of the national project Infrastructure for Life.
And lastly, we must thoroughly analyse the situation in these sectors which are of fundamental importance for creating comfortable living conditions for our people throughout the country.
