New houses on Iturup will receive 72 families under the resettlement program

The ceremony of handing over the keys to apartments in four new houses for 72 families took place on Friday in the city of Kurilsk on Iturup Island (southern group of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Region). All new settlers are participants in the program for resettlement from dilapidated and emergency housing, TASS was told in the press service of the Ministry of Construction of the Sakhalin Region.

The development of the Kuril Islands is among the priorities of the government of the Sakhalin Region, and is under special control of the federal authorities. Kurilsk is the administrative center of the Kuril region. The city has a small population, about 1.5 thousand people. people, so the commissioning of four houses for 72 families for the island is a significant and long-awaited event.

“The event for handing over the keys to the new settlers took place. In & nbsp; all 72 apartments are being relocated by people from & nbsp; emergency housing, , - said the press service.

The apartments are delivered on a turnkey basis: cosmetic repairs have been made in the premises, windows, doors, plumbing and electrical appliances, linoleum and wallpaper in the rooms have been installed. Kitchens with natural lighting, an electric stove and a water heater are designed in each apartment. The total living area of the apartments is almost 4 thousand sq. meters. “Of course, this is a big event for us. Perhaps, for big cities, the commissioning of four houses is something less noticeable, but not for us. It is very joyful to see that every year more and more attention is being transferred to the Kuriles, new production facilities are being opened, houses are being built, specialists are being attracted,” the administration of the Kuril region commented to TASS.

Work on resettlement of people from dilapidated dilapidated housing in region is being carried out under the national project "Housing and urban environment". It is valid until 2030 and includes four federal projects: "Mortgage", "Housing", "Formation of a comfortable urban environment", "Ensuring a sustainable reduction of uninhabitable housing stock". Governor Valeriy Limarenko set the task of introducing 500 thousand square meters of housing annually. This is about 7 & nbsp; thousand. apartments for Sakhalin and Kuril residents. A third of all housing under construction on Sakhalin and Kuril Islands is rented and social.

Sakhalin Oblast is the first in Russia to complete the program of resettlement of citizens from the emergency fund, recognized as such by 1 January 2017. In 2020, 126 thousand sq.m. m of such housing, now the subject is becoming a pilot in the implementation of a new resettlement program from the emergency fund by the end of 2026, it is planned to resettle more than 640 thousand sq m. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, speaking on April 7 with a report on the work of the government in the State Duma, said that the Russian authorities are developing a new program for the resettlement of dilapidated housing, and 45 billion rubles will be allocated for its implementation in the next two years . The head of the Cabinet noted that the industry today is demonstrating significant growth and "practically does not depend on" imports.