Issues of realization in Republic Tatarstan of the program of capital repair is dicussed in Kazan.

Tatarstan will be a region to test a funding mechanism to be used in a hazardous residence resettlement programme. The scheme includes providing individuals with new residences on a non-profit rent basis.

The in-principle agreement was reached at a meeting at the House of Tatarstan Government on Monday. The meeting, participated by President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, state-run Housing and Utilities Reform Fund Chairman, Konstantin Tsytsin, and fund advisory board's chairman, Sergei Stepashin, dealt with implementing block of flats major renovation and hazardous housing resettlement programmes. The meeting was held as a video conference with the participation of Tatarstan municipal officials.

Konstantin Tsytsin said that the federal legislation did not stipulate concrete sums for the hazardous dwelling resettlement plan, meaning that various funding sources, including providing new residences on a social rent basis, could be employed.

In total, the hazardous housing elimination programme funding in 2013-2017 will be more than 9 billion roubles, including more than 4 billion from the Housing and Utilities Reform Fund and nearly 5.5 billion from the Tatarstan budget.

Tatarstan Construction, Architecture and Housing Minister, Irek Faizullin, said the space of hazardous dwelling in Tatarstan, planned for resettlement, was about 420,000 quare metres. It is the housing recognised as hazardous before 2012. Considering that the new residences provided for people being resettled were larger than the flats they owned in hazardous buildings, the actual costs until 2017 are more than 13 billion roubles.

“The budget, including the Tatarstan budget, lacks funds to fully solve the hazardous dwelling problem. Let us use social rent. It is OK if it generates small money. Let people in 10-30 years recompense at least some part of the spendings,” said Sergei Stepashin answering questions from journalists after the conference.

A total of 529 buildings that are homes to nearly 9.5 thousand people are planned to be resettled in 2014 in Tatarstan.