75 thousand vacancies throughout Poland will soon turn into apartments for rent
Additional billions of zlotys from the government subsidy fund will allow municipalities from all over Poland to renovate up to 75,000 in five years. vacancies. It is also the end of buying municipal apartments at preferential prices.
The subsidy fund is a government targeted fund created at Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego. It is powered by funds from the state budget, which are allocated to non -returnable financial support for housing investments.
The amendment to the Act on social forms of housing development will introduce several changes, including a ban on buying municipal apartments on preferential terms.
More money for the renovation of municipal vacancies
Changes in the Act on social forms of residential development will introduce a higher maximum limit of the state budget expenditure, to which the subsidy fund may be fed for a social and municipal construction program (BSK), as well as a program of social rental construction (SBC).
Expenses for this purpose are to increase as early as 2025 from PLN 4.5 billion to PLN 7 billion. In 2026, they will amount to nearly PLN 6 billion, in 2027 – PLN 6.86 billion, in 2028 – PLN 8 billion, in 2029 – PLN 9 billion, and in 2030 – PLN 10 billion.
The government hopes that in this way the number of repairs of municipal vacancy will increase, which, according to the 2021 national census, there are over 113,000 throughout Poland. The Ministry of Development and Technology assumes that by 2030 75,000 will be restored to use. premises.
End of preferential prices for the purchase of apartments
The government also wants to restore the provisions on the total ban on separating the ownership of premises built under the SBC program and the extension of 15 to 25 years after which the residential premises may be separated into ownership using financial support.
After this period, possible sales can take place only at a market price (without a discount), and the funds are to be allocated to create a new or modernize the existing housing resource of the commune.
