Farit Khanifov: We should be an example for other regions on the implementation of the National project "Housing and Urban Environment"

Russian President Vladimir Putin has set the country the task of increasing the pace of housing construction. In Tatarstan, for the current year it is planned to build 2.979 million square meters of housing, by 2024 the indicator is planned to increase to 3.648 million square meters. Over the past 10 years, about 2.4 million square meters of housing were introduced annually in the republic. Last year, it was possible to reach a new level of housing construction and introduce 2 million 675 thousand square meters. Thus, during the year 37 thousand families improved their living conditions. The Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan, Farit Khanifov, emphasized during the final board of the department: “We should be an example for other regions in implementing the National project “Housing and Urban Environment ”. We need to comprehensively address issues, pay attention to the construction of engineering, and road transport infrastructure, to the mortgage rate. Despite the fact that in the country, according to the results of the year, the mortgage rate decreased to 9.12%, it remains quite high. One of the most important tasks is its reduction, it is necessary to expand citizens' access to mortgages.”