Putin allowed owners of dilapidated housing to receive new ones out of turn. New housing on social rent will be provided to both tenants and owners of housing unsuitable for living.

The law comes into force ten days after publication. Earlier it was reported about an increase in funding for the resettlement of residents from emergency housing in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The current provisions of the Housing Code only citizens living in emergency apartments on the basis of a social tenancy agreement can receive housing out ofturn.