Apartment starts program plus 3 thousand. zł per meter and cheap rent – BBC

From the previous government announced that the program will be offered, among others, cheap apartments for rent, savings and building improvement activities of housing cooperatives.

The apartment has a plus contain a number of different instruments to support the housing market. The main beneficiaries will be families with average incomes who have no chance of getting their own housing. With the previous announcement showed that the program in full would be launched in 2017.

Improving housing affordability

The main objective of apartments plus improving the availability of housing in particular and segments on local housing markets. It assumes first of all to build affordable housing for rent, which will reduce the housing deficit, which according to estimates of the Ministry amounted to approx. 0.5 million homes (as of the end of 2015.).

As repeatedly said the deputy minister of infrastructure and construction Kazimierz Smolinski, the Ministry and the government are seeking to move away from supporting “residential property”. Currently in Poland approx. 85 per cent. apartments to condominiums, and rental market is only approx. 4 percent. The ruling modeled on the highly developed EU countries – Germany, Denmark and Sweden – will seek to develop the market for affordable housing for rent and housing from reaching the property.

The cost of construction square meter. Apartment is not to exceed 3 thousand. zł

With the announcement of the ministry that the cost of building square meter. such housing is not more than 3 thousand. zł. According to the MIB is possible with the use of land belonging to the Treasury. Since December last year. MIB, the leading inventory of land belonging to the Treasury, which will be dedicated to the program of building affordable housing for rent.

These apartments would be available to citizens and families who are not entitled to public housing, but their wages are not sufficient to be able to afford to rent an apartment on the commercial market or apply for a mortgage. In addition to the attractive price of rental housing also would provide more flexibility and facilitate the migration processes, eg. For the purpose of study or a new job elsewhere.

rent in flats offered by the state would be stable and lower than the commercial market. In the long term, there is a possibility of renting such an apartment with “reaching the property,” and the cost of repayment of such housing would be much lower than buying in the market. In addition, this solution would eliminate the indebtedness of Poles.

Another proposal announced by the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Construction Andrzej Adamczyk would be a return to long-term savings for housing, or building societies or separate accounts, construction and housing.