The head of the Ministry of Construction of Tatarstan: in five years we need to grow by half a million square meters

This year, the implementation of the national project "Housing and Urban Environment" will result in the commissioning of housing with a total area of ​​2.9 million square meters.  The Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Farit Khanifov announced this at a briefing in the RT Cabinet. “According to statistical data in Tatarstan, the average living space per one resident at the end of last year was 27.3 square meters, in the country 26.3 sq. m. ", - said the speaker. He also noted that in Tatarstan by 2024 it is planned to increase the volume of housing commissioning up to 3 648 thousand square meters. According to the minister, this will increase the provision of housing from the current 27.3 square meters per person up to almost 31.3 square meters. In addition, the head of the Ministry of Construction of the Republic of Tatarstan said that half of the loans this year were used to purchase housing in the primary real estate market. “In general, loans received and sold, we have for the first half of the year 17,593 - this is 36 billion 738 million rubles. It's nice that 49% of this pool is loans for the primary market. In the republic, we have an increase of more than 3%, ” - he said.