Nearly a billion for resettling Irkutsk residents from dilapidated emergency housing

Irkutsk Region will receive nearly 1 billion rubles from the federal government for the resettlement from unsafe housing program and support for the construction industry. In Irkutsk, 129 unsafe buildings are planned to be demolished and more than a thousand people resettled, and the state will buy apartments in nearly finished buildings to stimulate the housing market. The region will submit the next application to the Housing and Utilities Reform Fund in June, including 17 municipalities.

The region will support the construction industry and help those in need of housing. The federal center has allocated almost 1 billion rubles for the implementation of the regional program "Relocation from dilapidated housing stock, taking into account the need to stimulate the development of the housing market".
Funds from the federal center will arrive by the end of the month.More than 70 million rubles will be added by the region on a co-financing basis. The first stage of the program’s implementation provides for the demolition of 129 facilities in Irkutsk. Facilities that have been recognized as unsafe. And the resettlement of more than one thousand people in Irkutsk.
The Minister of Construction and Road Management of the Irkutsk Region, Ruslan Bolotov, emphasized: the state intends to buy back new housing that is at a high stage of completion. Buildings must be at least 70% complete. There are currently about 90 such facilities in the region. By the way, immediately after the conclusion of government contracts, the region will be able to make an advance payment to developers. According to Bolotov, this will become an incentive for the development of the housing market in the Angara region.
The funds received from Moscow are only the beginning of the implementation of a major project. There is an acute need for housing in the Angara region, and the authorities would not like to freeze construction.The region will submit the next application to the Fund for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reform in June: it is planned to include 17 municipalities in it.