Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services Svetlana Razvorotneva commented on the idea of Senator Anatoly Shirokov to limit the sale of one-bedroom apartments in order to increase the birth rate.
According to her, in order to make housing more affordable, it is necessary to use other tools.
“If we want to fight this, we should not ban it, but reduce the cost per square meter. When we reduce it and give people alternative tools for solving housing issues. For example, let’s start developing rental housing, revive the cooperative movement, then people will have a choice, and they will be able to buy a bigger apartment. No one will willingly buy a one-bedroom apartment if they can buy a two-bedroom apartment. But it’s people who are forced, it’s the economy that forces them,” the deputy said “Газете.Ru “.
She also noted that the share of one-room apartments cannot be regulated, unlike the profit margins of developers. According to her, the main problem is not even in the presence or absence of three-bedroom apartments and not even in the key rate, but in the cost per square meter.
“With the marginality of developers, especially in large cities, it would be possible to reduce this cost somehow. But since there is demand, no one does it,” the deputy noted.
By the way, Anatoly Shirokov, deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-government and Northern Affairs, said in a conversation with the National Assembly that he did not propose to ban the construction of one-room apartments throughout Russia. He noted that he called only to reduce the “specific weight” of one-bedroom apartments and increase the construction of two- and three-bedroom apartments.
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