Adhere to small-sized apartments and low rents, guide multi-entity investment and multi-channel supply


  Expand the supply of affordable rental housing (authoritative release)

  The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). On the 7th, the State Council Information Office held a regular State Council policy briefing to introduce the relevant situation.

  Affordable rental housing mainly solves the housing difficulties of eligible new citizens, young people and other groups

  According to Ni Hong, the Deputy Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, after years of development, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country’s housing security capacity has continued to increase, with a total of more than 80 million sets of various types of affordable housing and resettlement housing in sheds, helping 2 More than 100 million people in need have improved their housing conditions.

At the same time, with the acceleration of urbanization and the expansion of the floating population, the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups are still prominent. It is necessary to speed up the improvement of the housing security system with public rental housing, affordable rental housing and shared property housing as the main body.

  How is the affordable rental housing defined and what are its characteristics?

Cao Jinbiao, director of the Housing Security Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, explained that, unlike public rental housing, which is provided for urban housing and income "double-difficulty" households, shared property housing is mainly for new citizens who have a certain economic capacity but cannot afford commercial housing. For young people, affordable rental housing mainly solves the housing difficulties of eligible new citizens, young people and other groups. It insists on small units and low rents. "For example, newly graduated college students work in Beijing. Many people are not eligible for public rental housing. Income conditions but housing difficulties."

  In Cao Jinbiao’s view, the promulgation of the "Opinions" is conducive to promoting a new type of urbanization with people as the core, promoting the establishment of a housing system featuring multi-subject supply, multi-channel guarantee, and simultaneous rental and purchase, and is conducive to alleviating housing leasing. The lack of structural supply in the market promotes the steady and healthy development of the real estate market. "From the survey, the overall situation in the housing rental market in large cities is not that there is no house but structural supply is insufficient. The supply of large-sized houses exceeds demand, and the supply of small-sized houses The supply is in short supply. Expanding the supply of affordable rental housing can make up for the lack of small apartments and low-rent housing in the housing rental market."

  The government provides policy support for land, taxation, finance, etc., to give full play to the role of market mechanisms

  "There is also a new system for guaranteed rental housing, which is that the government will give land, fiscal, tax, and financial policy support to give full play to the role of the market mechanism to guide multi-entity investment and multi-channel supply." Cao Jinbiao introduced, including the use of collective operating construction Land use, idle land owned by enterprises and public institutions, supporting land for industrial parks, and the use of non-residential stocks such as vacant commercial office buildings and industrial plants to increase the supply of affordable rental housing in a variety of ways.

  With multiple channels of supply, how can we guide multi-agent investment?

After all, compared with the development model of "quick turnover", rental housing funds have a large amount of deposits and a long return period. In the past, some companies were not very willing to invest.

Ni Hong said that the policies put forward in the "Opinions" are strong, practical, and high in gold.

For example, allowing enterprises and institutions to use their own land to build affordable rental housing, changing land use, and not paying the land price; reducing the burden of taxes and fees and implementing civil water and electricity prices; supporting banking financial institutions to rent affordable housing in a market-oriented manner Self-holding entities provide long-term loans and are treated differently when implementing real estate credit management.

  "With so many preferential policies, we want the market players to be able to account and do it. This is also a new way for enterprises to achieve transformation and development based on market needs. The development of affordable rental housing will be an area that real estate companies will strive to explore in the future. Direction." Ni Hong said.

  The "Opinions" issued this time also stated that the city people's government should take the main responsibility for the development of affordable rental housing in the region and the promotion of solving the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups.

Cao Jinbiao said that at present, the urban people's government should focus on making plans, formulating measures, establishing mechanisms, strengthening supervision, and making connections.

In terms of strong supervision, it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the whole process of construction, leasing and operation management of affordable rental housing, and strengthen the supervision of project quality and safety.

Guaranteed rental housing shall not be sold on the market or sold in disguise, and it is strictly forbidden to operate illegally or defraud preferential policies in the name of guarantee rental housing.

  "From the survey results, many enterprises and institutions have a considerable amount of their own idle land, and at the same time, housing for newly employed employees of enterprises and institutions is relatively difficult. According to the "Opinions", the large cities with net population inflows and the provincial people's governments have determined Cities, with the consent of the city people’s government, the land that enterprises and public institutions have obtained the right to use according to law is allowed to be used for the construction of affordable rental housing under the premise of compliance with planning, unchanged ownership, meeting safety requirements, and respecting the wishes of the masses." Said that this is actually to clarify the scope of the city and give the city autonomy, but whether the city should use this policy should be determined according to local needs, and places where there is no demand cannot be blindly constructed.

  Our reporter Ding Yiting