Increase the supply of affordable rental housing in many places
Our reporter Kang Shu
Recently, many places have announced housing development plans during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
The "14th Five-Year Plan for Housing Development in Shanghai" clearly stated that approximately 230,000 sets of affordable housing will be supplied.
Guangzhou proposed that by 2025, the task of raising 660,000 sets of affordable housing will be fully completed.
Guangxi proposes to strive to build 394,200 new affordable housing projects during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with a construction area of 30.28 million square meters, including 62,600 public rental housing units and 331,600 shantytown renovations, and maintain the average annual rental subsidy scale. Around 80,000 households.
It is worth noting that in the housing development plans in many places, it is proposed to vigorously develop affordable rental housing.
Shanghai proposed to build 400,000 sets (rooms) of affordable rental housing during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, accounting for about 40% of the total housing supply.
Guangdong proposed to raise 740,500 sets (rooms) of affordable rental housing during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
Jiangsu proposed that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 200,000 new affordable rental housing units (rooms) will be added.
Guangxi proposed that 13,900 sets of affordable rental housing will be built this year.
Wuhan City intends to stipulate that newly-built commercial houses in the central urban area shall be equipped with affordable rental housing at a rate of 6%.
In June this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing", which clarified the top-level design of the housing security system at the national level for the first time.
The country's housing security system will be dominated by public rental housing, affordable rental housing and shared property housing.
It is understood that the target of affordable rental housing is different from that of public rental housing. It mainly solves the housing difficulties of new citizens and young people such as migrant workers and newly employed college students.
These newly graduated college students come to work in big cities and do not meet the income conditions for applying for public rental housing. Indemnified rental housing can become a choice for new citizens and young people to solve their housing problems.
After solving the staged housing difficulties through affordable rental housing, when this group of people has a certain accumulation and ability, but it is still difficult to buy commercial housing, the government arranges the supply of shared property housing, and by owning part of the property rights, they can compare with others. Buy houses at low prices and improve living conditions.
"During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, we will focus on the development of affordable rental housing, further improve the housing security system, increase the supply of affordable housing, and strive to achieve housing for all people." Ni, Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Rainbow said.
According to reports, before the end of October this year, the urban people's government should determine the "14th Five-Year Plan" affordable rental housing construction goals and policies and measures, formulate an annual construction plan, and announce it to the public.
In large cities with a large number of new citizens and young people, high housing prices or greater pressure to rise, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the proportion of new affordable rental housing in the total new housing supply should strive to reach more than 30%.
Policies will give more support to the development of affordable rental housing.
Ni Hong introduced that the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing" put forward six policies, which can be said to be strong, practical, and high in gold.
One is to further improve the land support policy.
For the use of collective operating construction land, enterprises and institutions' own land, supporting land for industrial parks to construct affordable rental housing, and the conversion of non-residential stock houses to affordable rental housing, tangible policies and support have been given.
The second is to simplify the approval process.
To use non-residential stock land and non-residential stock houses to construct affordable rental housing, the city and county people’s government can organize relevant departments to jointly review the construction plan. Fire and other procedures.
The third is that the central government will provide certain subsidies to the construction tasks of indemnificatory rental housing that meet the regulations.
The fourth is to reduce the burden of taxes and fees, use non-residential stock land and non-residential stock housing to construct affordable rental housing, and after obtaining the project certification, the preferential tax policies such as housing rental value-added tax and real estate tax shall be applied mutatis mutandis.
Fifth, the implementation of civil water and electricity prices.
The sixth is to further strengthen financial support.
Support banking institutions to provide long-term loans to self-holding entities of affordable rental housing in a market-oriented manner, and provide differentiated treatment when implementing real estate credit management.
Yan Rong, president of the Shanghai Institute of Real Estate Sciences, stated that the comprehensive implementation of these high-gold measures and the continued increase in the construction of affordable rental housing will help new citizens and young people to obtain rent and rent in large cities with a net influx of people. Rent, rent close, rent securely, rent well.