Problems & Solutions

Profitable houses

According to the preliminary estimation of the Territory Body of State Statistics in Saint-Petersburg and Leningradsky Region (Petrostat), by the date of 01.01.06, the number of citizens of Saint-Petersburg is 4580,62 thousand people.

Among them more than 500 thousand people (10, 9%) live in communal flats, hostels, in tumbledown and breakdown dwelling.

The number of families which need to get residential space in 2005

	Thousand
The number of families being on the books as those who need residential space under the agreement of social renting by the end of the year.	278,1
from the above mentioned number some of them live:
in communal flats	172,3
in hostels	28,0
in tumbledown and breakdown dwelling	7,7

These people are deprived of elementary conditions of life, such as bath, hot water and telephone. Many of them don’t have money to buy flats because1 м2 costs from 1000$. Not everyone can buy a flat for 100000$, but many people can rent a flat for 100$ - 200$ a month. That’s why one of the variants of the solving the housing problem in the city will be to build private houses for future renting. Those will be profitable houses of XXI century. The society of official tenants of private multi-flats houses should be returned to life. Those profitable houses will suit the modern requirements. The owners of the houses will be obliged to keep flats and surroundings in great order and tenants will pay taxes in the budget of the city together with the money for renting to the owner of the house.

It’s possible to draw the parallel of using profitable houses in XIX and XXI centuries

XIX century

XXI century

The city authorities took the part of the expenditure while building a profitable house so the rental rate reduced.

The city authorities will take the part of the expenditure while building a profitable house so the rental rate will reduce.

The privilege tax was set on the real estate of new buildings; the insurance from unprofitable flats was made.

The privilege tax will be set on the real estate of new buildings; the insurance from unprofitable houses will be made.

Houses-building cooperations began to be the owners of the houses which led to lower rent.

Houses-building cooperations will begin to be the owners of the houses which will lead to lower rent.

The maximum term of renting – 12 years

The tenant pays for municipal service himself.

The tenant pays for municipal service himself

The price of the flat to rent (rbls/year)	Tax (rbls/year)
300	5
1000	33
6000	560

The price of the flat to rent (rbls/year)	Tax (rbls/year)	Tax ($/year)
36000	4680	180
120000	15600	600
720000	93600	3600
average meaning		1460

In that way the following city problems will be solved:

The improvement of available housing of Saint-Petersburg (the settling of communal flats, the legalization of renting flats).
The improvement of the city
The demography of the city
The budget of the city will be fulfilled with 1460$ х 278000=405.880.000$ a year

Let’s make our lovable city Saint-Petersburg more beautiful!

Reference:
http://www.gostat.spb.ru/info/pjp-g.doc
http://www.transport.gov.spb.ru/gov/admin/otrasl/trud/materinstvo/analitic/p1
http://rentflat.spb.ru

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SPb 2007