How to get municipal housing: what documents to submit and how long to wait?

Who can get public housing?

The grounds for the possibility of accepting applications for the queue from citizens of the Russian Federation are clearly stated in Art. 51 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation and indicate the following categories of persons:

Citizens who are not yet renting housing under a social contract. hiring This condition also applies to family members of the applicant. In addition, the applicant must not own real estate or be a member of a family that owns any housing.
Citizens living in an area calculated to be less than 10 square meters per resident.
Citizens who own real estate (or rent it under a social tenancy agreement), provided that this premises does not meet the requirements of human sanitary safety standards. A separate requirement is the inability to repair or reconstruct such housing to bring it into proper condition. Typically, these categories include houses that are in disrepair or those that were damaged due to natural disasters (earthquake, flood, massive fire).

Separately, there are types of persons who have the opportunity to apply for space and can receive a municipal apartment out of turn:

Orphans or those left without care, if the duration allotted by law and regulations for staying in special care. educational institutions, passed.
Families with many children.
Persons who lost their home or apartment while in prison.
Persons who live in a communal apartment.
Citizens living in an apartment with more than one family, in addition, if one of these families has a seriously ill person. A separate condition is a particularly dangerous disease that makes it impossible for him to live near other people due to the risk of infection (this includes AIDS, tuberculosis, etc.). A detailed list of diseases is approved at the federal level by authorized authorities.
Liquidators of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
Persons falling under the category of forced migrants.
Persons who have served in military service for more than 20 years.
Veterans of the Second World War (by the way, at the moment they are given priority when determining priority).

Right to stand in line: important conditions

The procedure for action is outlined by which it is initially determined whether a citizen who wants to improve his living conditions really has sufficient grounds for doing so.

Compliance with the requirements stipulated by Chapter 7 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation gives the right to contact the authorized service. Article 51 of the RF Housing Code specifies the criteria by which those on the waiting list who receive housing under a social tenancy agreement are determined, and who can get on the waiting list.

To get on the waiting list for home improvement, you need to take care in advance. Obtaining housing in this way is possible if a number of conditions are simultaneously met:

Be a citizen of the Russian Federation.
Mandatory residence for a certain period of time with official registration in the locality chosen for the future location of housing. For the city of Moscow, this period is calculated at 10 years.
Within 5 years prior to the application, the applicant must not have taken any actions with real estate that caused a negative change in living conditions, namely:
gratuitous transfer (donation);
bad sale.

What do you need to get on the queue for public housing?

Filing an application for the opportunity to be placed on a waiting list for a municipal apartment consists of the following steps:

A potential applicant for housing is sent to the district administration strictly of the locality in which he lives. Such an application can be submitted to any multifunctional center - an organization that provides services for accepting various types of applications for obtaining government documents. Due to the specifics of his work, the MFC specialist will already send the application (if it is drawn up in accordance with the requirements) to the administration that will consider the application.
A list of documents is attached to the application - their list will depend on which of the possible categories of citizens entitled to receive municipal housing belongs to the citizen who submitted the application.
The submitted application will be considered by authorized administration employees within the period established by law - no more than one month.
Any decision (positive or negative) after rendering will be sent to the specified postal address in writing. If a refusal is given, administration employees must indicate the reason for this (inconsistency of documents, failure to fall into a certain category, related factors due to which you will not be able to apply for housing space).

All necessary documents that will need to be submitted to the administration are presented in the following list:

the application itself (written entirely by hand and signed, in addition to the applicant himself, by every family member who is legally capable);
passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation of both the applicant and all family members;
for children - their birth certificates;
if any of the applicant’s family members is married or has divorced, then state certificates. sample confirming this fact;
TIN of each family member;
certificate of income of all employees (or from the employment fund, if someone is registered in it);
documents on existing property (if any);
an extract from the house register of the housing in which the applicant and his family currently live;
other documents, the list of which is determined depending on the specific case and type of preferential category.

Where should I go?

Applications from citizens who decide to improve their housing standard by participating in the federal program are accepted at the place of their official registration by territorial local government bodies.

There are cases where you can register immediately and at the person’s place of permanent work.

You can contact the executive body by visiting the department in person. Another option is to submit a request electronically to the official website or mail of the state administration.

It is prohibited to take a seat in several queues at once.

Approximate time frame for obtaining housing

If your application is accepted and you are put on a waiting list, the question immediately arises - how long will you have to wait to receive the coveted living space?

If you rely on the articles of the governing law, then you will be able to obtain municipal housing within a period of no more than one year from the date of a positive decision. However, in practice, such a wait can be three years or more (in some cases, 15-20 years). Such issuance deadlines are exceeded for the following reasons:

limited funds from the state budget that can be used to provide citizens with housing;
non-compliance with the deadlines for the construction and commissioning of social housing, the construction of which is carried out by construction companies selected by the authorities;
too many citizens in the general list. For example, in the Moscow region alone there are more than 100 thousand families on the waiting list for housing.

It is worth noting that any citizen who joins the queue for housing receives his own special identification number and, during the entire wait, can easily find out, using the Internet, what position he is currently in.

To do this you need to do the following:

go to the website of the administration where the application is located;
go through the registration procedure;
log in (for this you will need your last name, first name, patronymic, TIN code and phone number);
After all data has been entered correctly, information with a serial number in the list will be displayed.

After the turn comes, a representative of the administration will contact the candidate for housing and invite him to conclude a free contract for social rental housing.

By the way, citizens cannot independently choose the housing they like - the administration is already offering a specific apartment or house.

If the applicant does not want to live in the premises intended for him, he can refuse and wait for another, more suitable one, but the number of refusals is strictly limited - no more than three times, after which the citizen is simply removed from the waiting list for housing.

I would also like to note that while waiting in line, circumstances may arise due to which a person may lose his right to receive a municipal apartment:

the reasons for which he was put on the waiting list no longer exist;
a citizen decides to move to another region of Russia (or even leave the Russian Federation);
identification of facts of concealment of any circumstances or submission of knowingly false information, the disclosure of which would impede the possibility of placing in a queue;
if a citizen used any of his available social benefits for the purchase or construction of housing;
purchase of housing, land, completion of construction of your own home.

If the applicant is removed from the queue, then within 10 days from the date of such a decision, he (she) is sent an official notification to the address specified in the application.

Terms of consideration

The period for consideration of the documentation package submitted along with the application is 30 days . After the expiration of which the local government bodies will announce the decision made by the head of the government. In case of refusal, an explanation will be given as to the reason.

Many applicants are concerned about the question: “How long will it take to actually improve their living conditions if the decision is positive?” Unfortunately, the administration's approval will not immediately improve conditions. The waiting period is a long-term period and depends on the specific region in which housing will be provided. In some it will be 5-6 years, in others – 15-20 years. During this time, many people on the waiting list give up their place, improving their living conditions on their own.

In this regard, a new question arises: “Is it possible to speed up the process of obtaining the long-awaited square meters?” This is possible if the applicant has access to a preferential queue.

How to speed up receipt?

As a rule, most citizens, especially those who have been waiting in line for a long time, wonder what needs to be done to speed up receipt? In principle, there are not many options for speeding up this process:

review information about those categories of persons who are entitled to special benefits when joining the queue - perhaps you unknowingly missed them and did not indicate them in the application. Then you should contact the administration body again to submit updated data;
if, while waiting, new circumstances arise that allow you to receive a benefit, you also need to provide new information and then you can significantly advance in the queue.

Category of citizens falling under preferential treatment

In accordance with the amendments made to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, improvement of housing conditions on a preferential basis is available to a limited circle of citizens.

This category includes recognized low-income families with:

single parents;
unemployed parents;
low-income parents;
pensioners;
as well as large families.

Article 51 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation contains information on the basis on which housing subsidies for low-income citizens can be issued:

if none of the family members has their own home;
the house (apartment) belongs to several families at the same time;
one of the family members is seriously ill;
housing is recognized as unsafe;
the area of the house (apartment) is much smaller than the norm for 1 person.

Assignment of low-income family status

For those who belong to low-income families, documentary evidence of their status is required.

To receive it to the social authority. protection you need to provide the following documents :

application for status assignment;
ID cards (passports);
marriage certificates, birth certificates of children;
certificates: about wages, family composition, etc.

There is a certain list according to which documents should be prepared before joining the queue.

Existing restrictions for the owner of municipal housing

After receiving a municipal apartment for use, you need to know about the restrictions that its new residents have:

since the recipient is not the full owner, he will not be able to sell or exchange an apartment or house (although there is the possibility of further privatization of housing subject to certain conditions);
in the event that the apartment was not privatized and its owner died, then if no one else was registered in the living space, it returns to the ownership of the state;
if there are periodic complaints from neighbors about noise (for example, related to drinking alcoholic beverages), then the owner of the property may be evicted without the right to further return the space.

Waiting list

Once a positive decision has been made to place the applicant on the waiting list for improved housing conditions, everyone on the waiting list receives their original number. It may remain static for some time. But subsequently the applicant’s number changes, sometimes upward, when preference in the allocation of housing is given to citizens who fall under the preferential category. Information about the current queue number is constantly changing, so it is necessary to monitor it periodically.

Find out the queue

There are several ways to find out your own serial number for improving your living conditions:

Check with administrative authorities in person;
Request information through a written request sent through the post office;
View electronic queue information using the Internet.

The speed at which the queue moves directly depends on the level of the economy in the country.

Dequeueing

In civil practice, there are grounds for removal from the queue, according to which executive bodies exclude applicants from the list of those wishing to improve their living conditions.

Removal from the queue occurs after 30 days from the date of discovery of the reason.

The grounds giving the right to be removed from the queue include:

knowingly providing false information about the applicant;
changing of the living place;
purchase or acquisition through other sources of your own land or real estate;
independent voluntary request to be excluded from the queue.

When exclusion from the queue occurs without reason, citizens have the right to challenge such a decision in court.