Development of affordable rental housing——
Alleviate housing difficulties for new citizens and young people
Our reporter Kang Shu
Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing."
The "Opinions" clarified that affordable rental housing mainly solves the housing difficulties of eligible new citizens, young people and other groups, mainly small units with a floor area of no more than 70 square meters, and the rent is lower than that of market rental housing in the same location and quality. rent.
Why affordable rental housing has become the development focus of housing construction?
What policy support will the development of affordable rental housing receive?
At the recent press conference held by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, relevant experts made interpretations.
Solve the problem of re-selling and light-renting
On July 22, Han Zheng, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended a teleconference on accelerating the development of affordable rental housing and further regulating the real estate market.
He emphasized that the development of affordable rental housing should be a key task of housing construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and that everything should proceed from reality to resolve outstanding housing problems in big cities.
Why is affordable rental housing a key task in housing construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan?
According to Yu Xiaofen, Vice President of Zhejiang University of Technology and Dean of China Housing and Real Estate Research Institute, with the acceleration of urbanization, a large-scale rental housing group has emerged in my country.
On the one hand, my country's floating population rents houses on a large scale.
Data from the seventh census showed that the country’s floating population reached 376 million, an increase of 69.73% over the “sixth census”. These floating populations mainly flowed to economically developed coastal areas and large cities.
At the same time, my country has a large number of newly employed university graduates every year.
Quite a few of these graduates go to work in big cities.
The confluence of these two groups has brought huge demand for rental housing.
At present, in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, etc., the proportion of renters in the permanent population has reached more than 40%.
Yu Xiaofen believes that, for a long time, the supply of my country's real estate market has focused on selling and leasing, and there is no special policy support for the leasing market. This has led to long sales legs and short leasing legs, and the market structure is unbalanced.
In the leasing market, most of the existing rental houses are private houses, with large units and high rents. The lack of small houses and low-rent houses suitable for the needs of new citizens and young people makes it impossible for new citizens and young people to buy houses. The problem of bad renting is quite prominent.
Yu Xiaofen said that taking the development of affordable rental housing as a key task of housing construction during the "14th Five-Year Plan" is to solve the problem of new citizens and young people who cannot afford to buy a house and cannot afford to rent a house.
By substantially increasing the small-unit, low-rent housing that meets the needs of new citizens and young people, we can effectively alleviate their phased housing difficulties, so that they can stay in the city and live decently.
"This is a people-centered measure to meet the people's yearning for a better and happy life, and it is also a need to promote a new type of people-centered urbanization." Yu Xiaofen said.
Policy support is clearer
In large cities with net population inflows, housing problems for new citizens and young people are more prominent.
Therefore, the development of affordable rental housing will focus on large cities with net population inflows.
The people's governments of these cities bear the main responsibility for promoting the solution of the housing difficulties of new citizens and young people.
Yan Rong, president of the Shanghai Real Estate Science Research Institute, believes that for the city people’s government, it should attach great importance to accelerating the development of affordable rental housing, because this is not only a manifestation of the implementation of the important concept of the people’s city, but also a powerful measure to promote the sustainable development of the city. .
The city government should conduct an assessment of the city’s housing development, understand and grasp the real demand situation, and determine development goals and strategies.
At the same time, it is necessary to coordinate land, finance, taxation, finance and other departments, as well as professional institutions such as water and electricity, to form a sustainable development mechanism for promoting affordable rental housing.
The "Opinions" make it clear that the government will provide support for land, taxation, and financial policies for affordable rental housing, give full play to the role of the market mechanism, guide multi-entity investment and multi-channel supply, and insist on "who invests, who owns."
Support professional and large-scale housing leasing companies in the construction, operation and management of affordable rental housing.
What market participants are most concerned about is the policy support for the construction of affordable rental housing.
In this regard, Yan Rong believes that the "Opinions" have strong pertinence, strong measures and high policy content, which are mainly reflected in four aspects.
One is to reduce costs.
Mainly to reduce the cost of land for rented housing; the second is closed-loop approval.
Many institutions or enterprises engaged in housing leasing are faced with the problem of policy mechanisms but nowhere in the approval process.
Now the approval mechanism has been established through the "Opinions" to make the approval smoother; the third is to innovate and put forward the project certification.
The city government’s leading group for affordable rental housing or the authorized leading department will issue a certificate for the affordable rental housing project.
The project certificate facilitates the implementation of relevant preferential policies; the fourth is a series of support policies.
The "Opinions" comprehensively sorted out the relevant policies to support the development of rental housing, and also clarified the relevant methods for obtaining financial subsidies. In view of the characteristics of affordable rental housing, it also refined financial support measures. These policies provide market participants with stable development expectations.
Better housing
According to news from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, 40 cities plan to raise 930,000 sets of affordable rental housing in 2021.
Before the end of October this year, the urban people's government should determine the construction goals and policy measures of affordable rental housing during the 14th Five-Year Plan, formulate an annual construction plan, and announce it to the public.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, what are the policy priorities for the development of affordable rental housing?
Yu Xiaofen believes that first, we must grasp the target of affordable rental housing, that is, new citizens and young people who work in cities and towns with housing difficulties, and help them solve the staged housing problem.
The second is to grasp the construction standards.
The "Opinions" make it clear that, in principle, the building area should not exceed 70 square meters. This is designed in accordance with the rental characteristics of new citizens and young people.
The third is to grasp the job-living balance.
The "Opinions" attaches great importance to enterprises, institutions and industrial parks to use the stock of land to construct affordable rental housing in order to promote the integration of industry and city.
Therefore, in the site selection, special attention is paid to the development of affordable rental housing in industrial parks, places with many jobs and convenient transportation, and strive to achieve a matching of supply and demand, and a balance between work and housing.
The fourth is to manage the rent.
The rent should be lower than the rent in the same location and market of the same quality, so that new citizens and young people can afford to rent. At the same time, it must also take into account the sustainable operation of investment entities.
Therefore, rent pricing must not only consider the economic affordability of new citizens and young people, but also take care of the sustainable operation of the investment subject.
Yan Rong believes that the comprehensive implementation of relevant measures for the development of affordable rental housing will achieve significant results.
New citizens and young people will be able to rent, afford, rent close, rent securely, and rent well in big cities with a net influx of population.
Rentability means that by alleviating the current structural supply shortage in the rental housing market, new citizens and young people can rent suitable housing.
Affordability means to effectively improve the issue of affordability through the development of small-sized and low-rent affordable rental housing.
Near renting means that through the integration of "industry, city and people" and the "people, land and house" linkage mechanism, affordable rental housing is mainly arranged in areas where jobs and convenient transportation are relatively concentrated.
Stable renting means that by stabilizing the supply and making it clear that affordable rental housing cannot be sold on the market or sold in disguise, the relative stability of the rental relationship is promoted, so that new citizens and young people can steadily solve the housing problem by renting.
Good renting means that through the development of affordable rental housing, the living quality of new citizens and young people can be gradually improved, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security can be continuously enhanced.