Tatarstan has become one of the regions-drivers of housing construction in Russia

According to the results of 2019, Tatarstan has become one of the regions-drivers of housing construction. This was announced at a meeting in the Federation Council on the implementation of the national project “Housing and Urban Environment” by the Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Utilities of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yakushev, the press service of the upper house of parliament said. The head of the Ministry of Construction of Russia mentioned Tatarstan in fifth place - after the Moscow region, Moscow, Krasnodar Territory and St. Petersburg. In addition, the Minister included Rostov, Leningrad and Sverdlovsk Regions, Bashkortostan, as well as Voronezh, Samara, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions among the regions due to which the country is witnessing an increase in housing construction. “After several years of decline, we see a positive trend - housing commissioning has increased by 6.1%,” - Yakushev stated. At the same time, he emphasized that almost all subjects of the Federation should increase the volume of housing commissioning. Since 2019, Russia has been implementing the national project “Housing and Urban Environment”, developed on the basis of the so-called “May decree” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Within its framework, Tatarstan plans to increase housing commissioning to 2 million 979 thousand square meters this year, which is 304 thousand square meters more than in the past.