The state will manage to buy more apartments for orphans in 2024

The Government proposed to increase the funding of the state target program aimed at providing orphans with their own housing to 15 million rubles in 2024. This will allow the state to purchase more apartments using funds from the republican budget. The changes provided for in the draft republican budget for 2024 are proposed to be included in the program passport.

It was planned when developing the state program, which is designed for 9 years, that every year the state would purchase 60 apartments, allocating about 6 million rubles from the state budget annually. However, it has not been possible since then to implement the program 100%, despite the fact that funding for the state program increased annually, the Government noted. For example, only 48 were purchased instead of 60 apartments in 2020. The Government notes that this is due to the fact that calculations of the cost of residential premises are outdated. The authors distinguished a permanent increase in real estate prices in the republic, according to the explanatory note. Prices increased by almost 30% in 2023. That is why it became impossible to purchase the planned number of apartments within the previously established limits.

The number of waiting lists is also growing. According to official data there were 1231 orphans on the waiting list for comfortable housing, as of January 1, 2023. At the beginning of 2022, there were 1188 of them, and at the beginning of 2021 – 1045. The waiting list included 95 people to get their own housing in 2022. The state purchased 39 apartments and houses during the same year, spending more than 9 million rubles from the republican budget for these purposes (an average of 14 thousand dollars per residential premises).

The Committee on Social Policy and Healthcare will recommend adopting the law-in-draft on amendments to the state program in the first reading at one of the next plenary meetings.