Regions will have the right to choose housing conditions improvement of families with three or more children

      State Duma of the Russian Federation on  May 23, 2014 on the first reading adopted a bill on social support measures of families with three or more children.

      Currently, citizens having three or more children are entitled to purchase (including the house construction) land plots for free, that are in state or municipal property. This does not include the need to improve housing conditions. Also, not provided alternative improvement forms of such families living conditions.

      The bill eliminates these defects. First, offered to fix clearly goals of sites free providing – individual housing or summer cottage construction, gardening, horticulture, livestock, private farming. As before, the lands will be released without trades and prior approval of objects placement. Regions will establish the procedure for sites granting. Moreover, they will be eligible to take into account the criterion of need to improve housing conditions.

      Second, the bill provides for alternative measures of families with three or more children social support. Regional authorities instead of land with citizens consent will be able to provide them social benefits to improve housing conditions. It can be spent on the property purchase, house construction, shared construction or paying down an initial installment, repayment of interest and (or) principal on mortgage loans taken out by the purposes. In addition, due to these payments there will be possibility to offset costs for housing and communal services in the residential tenancy of social or commercial use. Regions will be able to establish other social support measures to provide living quarters.