The housing problem is acute not only for young families. Every Russian dreams of getting their own home, but not all citizens can afford it. For many, the only option to acquire separate living space is government subsidies. Benefit recipients and low-income families have the right to expect to receive an apartment in the order of registration . There are several ways to find out your queue for housing: look on the Internet or during a personal visit.
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Conditions for queuing
To be included on the waiting list for housing, citizens must belong to one of the following categories:
- Low-income families . Status alone is not enough: Russians must live in a house recognized as unsafe or have property whose area is less than the established norm for 1 family member in the region.
- Orphans.
- Families with a disabled person or a person whose health condition requires the provision of separate living space.
- Military personnel.
- Citizens who have lost their property , for example, as a result of a program to demolish dilapidated buildings, can also join the general queue and count on receiving housing
The Regional Construction Fund provides the opportunity to get on the waiting list for an apartment to citizens who own a building where one of the types of housing and communal services is missing (the supply of gas, electricity, water, heating does not work).
Reasons for withdrawal
It must be remembered that any citizen can be deregistered early without the right to receive housing. The grounds for this are regulated by current Russian legislation. These include:
- Unauthorized removal from the queue by submitting an appropriate application to the housing department;
- The grounds that make it possible to claim social benefits have been lost;
- The status of a low-income family has been lost due to increased income;
- Changed place of residence (different region);
- Received other social assistance from the state to improve housing conditions;
- A plot of land was received for the construction of a residential building;
- Inaccurate data was identified in the submitted documents.
Once the grounds for removal from the queue have been identified, this will be done within thirty calendar days.
How's the line going?
After submitting documents, citizens are assigned a queue number for housing . Using this number, owners can determine promotion.
You can count on getting an apartment soon:
- orphans;
- families in which a citizen with a chronic illness or a disability lives;
- residents of emergency buildings.
is one of the first to provide housing to orphans , since they belong to the most vulnerable social segment of the population.
Under preferential conditions, those whose property is recognized as unsafe or unsuitable for habitation can count on an apartment. Property status is assigned by the social service commission in the region.
Military personnel acquire property either as part of a preferential loan program or due to their official position. Their promotion is different from other beneficiaries. Information is obtained from the housing registry at the place of service.
If owners do not fall into one of these categories, they can count on help from other subsidies. For example, according to the young family program.
Movement through the list
Once an applicant has joined the housing improvement queue and received an initial number, they will need to be monitored regularly. For each region of the country, the rate at which citizens move up the list is different, depending on the size of the population. In general, there is no general principle of promotion one by one, and in addition to the number of applications, the economic condition of the locality and the awareness of the municipal authorities also play a role.
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Since there are many people who want to receive housing from the state, and the construction of new social real estate has not been carried out for a long time, a citizen has the opportunity to get an apartment only when one becomes vacant. In this regard, you can wait for your turn to improve your current housing conditions for years.
At the same time, preferential categories have the right to speed up the receipt of real estate, thereby moving others lower on the list. Therefore, a number, information about which is constantly updated, can not only remain in place for a long time, but also increase.
Getting housing out of turn:
- Recognition of housing as completely unfit for habitation without the possibility of restoring it;
- A family living with a chronically ill person who threatens the health of other residents.
How to determine your place?
To be aware of when to draw up documents for a new apartment, beneficiaries should constantly find out their turn on the list. You can view your queue number in several ways: at the MFC, through the online resource “State Services”, on the regional portal, or during a personal visit to the administration of the subject.
Via the Internet on the Moscow government services website
Residents of the capital can look at the queue for an apartment in Moscow via the Internet. The website of the mayor of the capital, mos.ru, allows you not only to submit documents for housing in Moscow online, but also to obtain information about the status of the provision of the service.
You can find out the queue for an apartment within 10 minutes here - https://www.mos.ru/pgu/ru/services/link/157/?onsite_from=56532. Information is provided only to individuals and their legal representatives.
On mos.ru you can find out the serial number in the queue for an apartment if the citizen provides passport details. When receiving information, an authorized representative will need a notarized power of attorney.
An online request allows you to view the electronic queue for housing. Information about citizens registered in other regions of the country is located in the housing committee of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation or the website of the local administration. For example, Russians can check the progress of the queue for housing (St. Petersburg) on the city portal gov.spb.ru in the “Checking application status” section.
Through the portal "State Services"
The unified state portal “State Services” provides citizens with a wide range of social opportunities.
through the State Services portal (there is no such option) , but you can find out information about documents, deadlines for receiving and features of providing information.
The portal contains information on how to check the queue for housing on the local administration website. Contact information is indicated (for example, the telephone number of the housing and communal services for orphans' affairs), the timing of the provision of services (1 day for submitting documents and 30 for consideration), and features.
In the local administration
Those who do not trust the Internet can look at the queue for housing during a personal visit to the regional administration. Civil service employees help you find out your queue for an apartment using your personal number .
If citizens do not know which number they have been assigned, they can submit a request. The number is issued immediately after joining the program; it is provided online. Only the owners or their representatives can find out the queue number for housing.
To track the queue when visiting the administration, you need to provide the owner’s passport, documents for the apartment and information about state support. The duration of the service is from 1 to 10 days . It is acceptable to receive a response to your request via email or telephone number.
Through MFC
Citizens can make an appointment online, on the website of the regional MFC, or in person. To find out about the number and promotion at the MFC, you need to take a coupon (online or in the center) and submit documents .
Information is provided to the MFC upon written request. The period for receiving information does not exceed 30 days. The service is only possible for those for whom benefits are issued: other family members do not have access to the information. It is allowed to issue information to a legal representative with the presentation of relevant documents.
Receiving the information
There are several ways to find out your current housing improvement number:
- Submit a written application to the housing department in two copies;
- Send a request through the post office to the official address of the housing inspection. The period for receiving a response is no more than thirty days;
- Contact your local administration in person. Every family on the waiting list has the right to find out their current number;
- Online queue tracking using the Internet. An electronic database has been created for each region. It contains reliable information about program participants and serial numbers.
You can choose the most optimal option for each individual case. If you need information of a purely informational nature, an electronic database is also suitable, but when you need an official response, it is better to apply in person or send a postal request.
How to get an apartment or housing subsidy in St. Petersburg
The main innovation of last year was the ability to submit applications and resolve almost all issues electronically, through the State Services portal. To do this, you need to have a confirmed account in the Unified Identification and Authentication System (USIA).
The State section of the portal specifies the conditions that applicants must meet. There are still two options to get into the program: register as those in need of housing, or as those in need of assistance in improving housing conditions.
What is the difference? The fact is that in the first case they provide (or rather, should provide) apartments on social rental terms. In the second, they provide subsidies, or, more precisely, social benefits for the purchase of housing. The subsidy is a partial covering of the cost of new housing.
The fact is that the “queue for housing” is rooted in the Soviet past. Today, social rental apartments are allocated at the rate of 18 square meters. m per person. But “singled out” is a strong word: the queue stretched for many years. Today, programs that provide apartments have been virtually curtailed. Those on the waiting list are asked not to wait “pie in the sky” (the chances of waiting for an apartment, frankly speaking, are slim), but to apply for social benefits.
Yes, you will have to pay extra for housing of acceptable quality from your own funds. But, firstly, you can choose housing of any class and in any area. Secondly, other social payments and subsidies can be used as additional payments: federal and regional maternity capital, partial compensation of the mortgage for a third child in the amount of 450 thousand rubles. You can get a preferential “family” mortgage, or take advantage of existing government programs to subsidize mortgage rates.
An increase in social benefits for families with children is, of course, good news. But regional budgets, which provide for subsidies (payments), are not rubber-stamp. Therefore, there may be queues for certificates. So far, as “Littlevan” was told in Gorzhilobmen, everything is more or less calm.
The city budget for 2021 included social payments for 511 large families totaling 2 billion rubles. The timing of the provision of social benefits is individual and depends on a number of factors: when the citizen registered for housing, when he submitted documents for participation in the program, when he will be included in the consolidated list of recipients for the next year, etc.
The provision of social benefits under the program is carried out in accordance with the procedure approved by Decree of the Government of St. Petersburg dated April 24, 2018 No. 328.
