Alexei Frolov: “In terms of housing provision per one inhabitant, we are ahead of the Russian average by 1 square meter”

Today, on the basis of the Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, a joint meeting of the Committee on Housing Policy and Infrastructure Development and the Expert Council under the Committee took place. Opening the meeting, which took place at the site of KSUAE "Urban Planning", Chairman of the Committee Alexander Tygin recalled that by the decision of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, an institute of spatial development is being created, whose activities will be aimed at solving issues of urban planning and urbanization. Then the members of the Committee began to discuss the report of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan, which was presented by the First Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture, Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexey Frolov. In 2020, 2 million 680 thousand square meters of housing were commissioned, of which 216.5 thousand square meters were built on the social mortgage. Within the individual housing construction, 1 million 452 thousand square meters were commissioned. The volume of work in the construction industry remained at the level of 2019 and amounted to 356 billion rubles, this year it is planned to increase the volume to 395 billion rubles. At the end of 2020, Tatarstan entered the TOP-5 regions of the country in terms of housing construction. It was emphasized at the meeting that in 2020 none of the 50 republican programs was suspended. The total amount of funding amounted to 54 billion rubles. An unprecedented republican program "Our yard" was launched last year. The parliamentarians drew the attention of the executive power to the wear and tear of engineering networks, which require serious capital investments. As noted by the deputy, general director of Municipal unitary enterprise "Vodokanal", Kazan, Andrey Egorov, if at the republican level the share of worn-out networks is 30 percent, then in some cities this figure reaches 70-80 percent. According to him, it is necessary at the federal level to work out options for resolving this issue.