Volzhsk, Republic of Mari El. Photo: Denis RECHKIN
For many years now, our country has been operating a program of emergency housing resettlement. That is, residents of houses recognized as unsafe are provided free of charge, at the expense of the state, with new modern apartments in comfortable houses. This is unique in world practice.
Since 2019, this resettlement has been carried out within the framework of the national project “Housing and Urban Environment” under the supervision of Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin. Each region adopts and implements its own program, and the Territorial Development Fund (TDF) acts as a single federal operator, providing financial support, providing methodological assistance in the formation and implementation of programs, and monitoring compliance with deadlines and work quality.
Since 2019, more than 12 million square meters of emergency housing have been relocated across the country. This has helped improve the living conditions of more than 715,600 residents. The program is about to end, under which houses deemed unsafe before January 2017 will be relocated ahead of schedule in 39 regions.
Housing recognized as unsafe will then begin to be relocated from January 2017 to January 2022. But some regions have already begun to resolve this problem ahead of schedule.
This pace is largely due to the government approving a mechanism for advance financing of regional programs. Another recently adopted mechanism, the CRT (integrated territory development), has also come into force. So far, it is the only one that allows you to relocate not only emergency housing, but also dilapidated housing, and also attract funds from investors for this.
But it is also important that the Russian construction complex, led by Marat Khusnullin, copes well with the task of building new houses and maintains the momentum. However, despite the generally good indicators, work on relocating citizens to new apartments continues and the government is systematically solving this problem.
Head of the Republic of Mari El Yuri Zaitsev:
– We have successfully met the target indicators of the specific republican program “Resettlement of citizens from the emergency housing stock” for 2019-2023. Since the beginning of the program in Mari El, 6.9 thousand people have been resettled and the resettled area amounted to 101.9 thousand square meters. In 2023, 3.4 thousand people moved to new apartments and 42.4 thousand square meters of emergency housing were liquidated. The next stage of the program is being developed: we will begin to relocate residents from houses declared unsafe between 2017 and 2022. It will be necessary to provide modern apartments for almost 8,000 people.
