in Belarus for the first half of 2014 commissioned 96,9 thousand square meters of housing type on rental apartments in 1754, accounting for 30.3% of the job for a year. This was during an online conference hosted by BelTA First Deputy Minister of Architecture and Construction of Belarus Alexander Kruchanov.
Of the total area of rental housing built in Minsk built almost 20.3 thousand sq. m (19.8% of the task) on 388 apartments in the Minsk region - more than 4.1 thousand square meters (11.1%) 80 apartments in Brest - 12.3 thousand sq. m (30.6%) for 232 apartments in Vitebsk - 6,4 thousand square meters (26%) of 120 apartments, in Gomel - about 21.2 thousand . sq.m (60.8%) for 401 flat in Grodno - 22.6 thousand square meters (41.2%) for 372 apartments in the Mogilev region - 10 thousand square meters (39.2% ) 161 apartment.
Investments in construction of rental housing in the January-June amounted to nearly Br504 billion, including Br178, 6 billion from the national budget and Br324, 8 billion from local budgets. Total in 2014 for these purposes will be allocated about Br2, 3 trillion.
Answering the question of how fairly excluded from the queue in need of better housing conditions of those who received rental housing Kruchanov Alexander suggested that the measure provides for the provision of rental housing in return for withdrawal from the queue is definitely true. "The government we have is not very rich, and everyone who wants to provide their own housing waiting list is not possible. Moreover, I note that the worldwide share of rental housing dominates the share of the private. Notice that all now put only in terms of lack of space , but does not take into account current income citizens. Therefore, we are confronted often even those who have the ability to credit, even commercial, improve living conditions, "- he stressed.
However, he said, citizens think: why strain if in a few years, you can build a cheap, without various encumbrances and with a 5 percent profit developer. "That is why the proposed alternative: either live in rental housing is removed from the queue and in need of housing, or wait for their turn on the construction of affordable housing. As the analysis shows, wanting to live in rental housing now, rather than waiting until their apartment building, a lot" - first deputy minister.