Square feet will be more

By 2016, the annual volume of housing construction is 100 million square meters. This is almost twice the current indicators. This directive is incorporated in the new federal program "Housing". Five years later, the Russians will get twice the home than it is now - 100 million square feet. m. This is a government meeting on Wednesday said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, introducing a new federal targeted program "Housing". In 2009 it was introduced some 60 million square feet. meters of housing, and for the first nine months of 2010 - 33 million square feet. m. "But we all know that the major new housing occurs just at the end of the year, so early next calculate the results of the current" - said Putin. According to him, the main task of the authorities is that as many Russians were able to move into new apartments. But people should have the right of choice - where to live and how to pay for housing. But it should not just square footage, and housing should be a new quality that meets the needs of modern people, warned the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Regional Development, so that in the near future was finalized new standards for construction, especially for the low-rise buildings and housing, economy class. "This is a very important issue - new standards in construction. They must be reliable, efficient, modern, and should not hinder the development of the construction sector ", - he said. Putin stressed that the program "Housing" provides a fundamentally new mechanism to execute construction projects. "Every subject of the Russian Federation will have to develop a regional program of housing construction, to introduce a simplified procedure for allocation of land plots for housing construction", - Putin said. In addition, regions, he said, should develop a territorial planning documents, to lay the funds under the provision of new areas of communal and traffic infrastructure. "It is also important to stimulate the initiative of citizens, including the establishment of housing co-operatives. For its part, the Russian government will support the best regional programs, the selection of which will be done on a competitive basis, "- he said. Additional funds from the federal budget will send the winners of contests for the laying of roads in the areas of mass construction, the Prime Minister said, "as well as interest on loans taken for construction of municipal infrastructure." Ministry of Regional Development of Russia, he said, will assist in bringing subjects of the Federation of State resource development institutions, such as Vnesheconombank, HMLA Development Fund for Housing and Utilities Reform Fund. Recall that before the crisis was also formed program to provide housing for the Russians, by 2010, it was assumed that each year will appear on 80 million new square. m. However, the crisis has brought its own changes. The fact that the new program will work in the government have no doubt. "During this year alone the volume of mortgage loans increased more than twofold," - said the prime minister. Not the last role is played by state aid - in times of crisis in housing has been put about 1 trillion rubles. "And it's only federal resources", - said the prime minister.