Apartment question in Belarusian: what are the conditions of preferential housing

In Belarus, a steady reduction in the queue of citizens in need of better housing conditions is recorded. According to current data of the relevant department, if in 2023 569 thousand families were registered, then by the beginning of this year this figure decreased to 561.5 thousand. A similar positive trend is noted among large families – their number in the queue decreased from 36.5 thousand to 33.5 thousand.

Representatives of the Ministry of Architecture and Construction emphasized on the air of the TV channel STV that it is possible to acquire your own square meters most quickly today in rural areas and small towns, where land plots for individual development are developed in the shortest possible time. In large cities, queue traffic sometimes slows down due to the selectivity of the citizens themselves, who reject the options offered because of the layout, cost or area.

The main driver of the housing program remains a unique system of state support, focused on large families. They have unprecedented financial conditions:

1. 1.Lending at 1% per annum: preferential loans are issued on an extraordinary basis for up to 40 years (for other categories of citizens, the conditions are up to 20 years and, as a rule, under 5% per annum).
2. 2.Coverage of 100% of the cost: the state subsidizes the full amount of the rationed amount of support (for other categories - 90%).
3. 3.Additional preferences: the right to early use of family capital, financial assistance in repayment of debts and deferral of payments for parents on parental leave under three years.

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