Putin announced the need to relocate people from the slums

“In general, the resettlement of citizens from the emergency fund is also ahead of schedule across the country.

We are constantly talking about this too: people need to be evicted from the slums, ”he said.

Putin noted that in 2022 Russia will set a new record for housing construction.

“More than 87 million sq.

m, 3 million Russian families have improved their living conditions,” he said.

Vladimir Putin takes part via video link in the opening of a number of social facilities in different regions of the country, the construction or major reconstruction of which has been completed as part of federal and regional development programs.

RT is broadcasting.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said that the Russian government had prepared a five-year program for the construction of facilities and the completion of unfinished projects worth 4.7 trillion rubles.

As reported by NSN with reference to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations Vladimir Yefimov, about 13 billion rubles will be invested in the development of the site of the former Kalibr industrial zone in the north-east of the capital.