It is unlikely that it will be possible to resettle dilapidated and dilapidated housing near Moscow “in the old way”

It is unlikely that it will be possible to resettle dilapidated and dilapidated housing in the Moscow region “in the old way.” But there is a way out.

The now half-forgotten Karl Marx, a century and a half ago, came up with the famous formula “The bureaucracy has no private property, but the state is the private property of the bureaucracy.” I was convinced of its fairness and relevance once again when a group of citizens approached the Public Chamber trying to solve their unenviable housing problem.

Let's restore the chronology of events and tell you about everything in order.

On October 18, 2012, in a farewell speech to the new Minister of Regional Development Igor Slyunyaev, President Vladimir Putin said: “The most important thing is that the number of footage of dilapidated and dilapidated housing should decrease steadily, and in no case increase.”

Let's try to think about why the head of state paid attention to this particular problem, for what reason he singled it out from the mass of others, perhaps more acute and significant. And he returned to it, scolding his ministers at a meeting in Elista on April 16, when one camera that was not turned off allowed one to hear this: “The quality of the work is insignificant, everything is superficial, if we continue to work like this, not a damn thing will work.”

But unfortunately for the officials, the story did not end there.

Less than a month had passed, and on May 7 in the Kremlin, summing up the results of the implementation of his “program decrees,” the president returned to the problem of dilapidated and dilapidated housing once again and bitterly asked: “We recently examined the results of the implementation of the same work that was literally worked out on the knees.” programs for the resettlement of emergency housing. Why accept such documents? You see, we are deceiving ourselves, leading us into fornication - there will be no result, and we are discrediting our own work."

Now let's go down from the Kremlin to the regional level. On January 29, 2013, the acting governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, presenting his election program “Our Moscow region: development priorities for 2013-2015,” solemnly vowed that in 2 years, 14 thousand people living in dilapidated and dilapidated housing would be resettled. For these purposes alone, 225 thousand square meters will be built. m of housing.

But is this task feasible? For example, it is impossible to solve it at the all-Russian level. Judge for yourself. In 2007, the number of people living in dilapidated and dilapidated housing was 480 thousand people. At the same time, the Fund for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reform was created, the main task of which was to bring money received from the federal budget to the regions.

6 years have passed. At the beginning of this year, the number of such poor people had grown to 720 thousand people. At the same time, more than 155 billion rubles have been allocated from the Fund for resettlement purposes. In the near future, the president promised to give another 126 billion.

At the same time, officials are quite open about the fact that the real size of this communal disaster is significantly greater.

Where is the way out? I think there is a way out. But for this, the authorities need to stop fighting the desire of citizens to live for themselves, and channel their “selfishness” into the mainstream of state interests.

Any dilapidated and emergency housing stands on the ground. Land is a commodity that is no longer produced. And in a number of cases, the very cost of a land plot makes it possible to resolve the issue of resettlement of dilapidated and dilapidated housing through the sale of the right to develop this land plot. But today, only 15% of dilapidated and dilapidated houses have land plots formed and registered with the cadastral register. Moreover, most apartment owners do not even realize that they own land as common shared ownership - real, non-depreciable wealth.

Only one thing is necessary: ​​that the authorities have a desire to convey to the people living in such housing that they have a valuable material resource that belongs to them, which can be used to solve their pressing problems.

Just understanding that a citizen living in the territory entrusted to one or another boss is not only an object of administrative exercises, but also an equal subject, can greatly change the picture of the world.

But to do this, it is necessary to abandon the desire of officials to quietly steal the property that belongs to them from these citizens.

A case in point: in the center of the green and cozy city of Pushkino in the near Moscow region there are six dilapidated barracks that were declared unfit for habitation back in the 80s of the last century. There were active citizens there who studied the Housing Code and decided not to wait for “favors from the state”, but to take care of themselves.

They united and came to the local administration with a demand to form a plot of land for their house. Then they planned to independently begin searching for an investor to build a modern multi-apartment residential building on their land. And they could have found it: one and a half hectares of land in the center of Pushkino, which can be legally obtained for construction without paying millions in bribes - this is a very attractive option for investors.

And the journey through torment began. At first, the Administration of the city of Pushkino refused them, saying that their houses would certainly be demolished by 2018 “at the expense of the attracted investor”, therefore it was “inappropriate” to give them the land. After a repeated appeal, a response was received that the formation of land plots in their quarter was planned for 2014.

On April 30, at the next personal reception of the governor of the Moscow region on issues of dilapidated and dilapidated housing, which was chaired by Deputy Minister Igor Kokhany, a representative of the initiative group from Pushkino, Elena Epova, received completely discouraging instructions and instructions.

I. Kokhany, when asked to assist in accelerating the procedure for the formation of land plots for dilapidated houses, answered literally the following: “Having all the documents in hand, you will run into an impenetrable wall. And then you will do nothing. area." From Mr. Kokhany’s point of view, the only way to solve the problem is to write letters to the prosecutor’s office and file lawsuits in court. Apparently, he does not ask the question of by whom, how and at what cost the adopted court decisions will be executed.

Only in May of this year did the “light at the end of the tunnel” finally appear: the mechanism proposed by the residents of Pushkino for the involvement and full participation of citizens in solving the problems of resettlement of dilapidated housing interested the Minister of Regional Development of Russia Igor Slyunyaev.

A working group was promptly created, which included heads of key federal departments, members of the Moscow regional government and the Public Chamber, Moscow municipal deputies and representatives of the public. The very first discussion, which took place on May 17, showed that this idea has the right to life and in some cases will help attract very serious extra-budgetary sources to solve the growing problem of dilapidation of the housing stock.

For example, the Minister of Construction of the Moscow Region, Alexander Kogan, quite rightly noted that the minimum cadastral value of land plots released during the demolition of emergency housing is about 1 billion rubles. And this is about 40% of the total amount of money that is planned in the budget of the Moscow region for the purpose of relocating emergency housing this year.

As a result of the meeting of the working group, they decided: to consider the initiative of the Pushkinites in the most careful way, conduct the necessary research, make a pilot project and, if the results are positive, disseminate this experience as an effective social technology.

As an expert in the field of economics of land and property complexes, I am convinced that this technology has every chance of success. However, in addition to the interest of the federal minister and the governor in its decision, it is necessary to bring the middle echelons both in the regional government and at the level of municipal officials to their senses. We are waiting for information from you, citizens, to the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region. And if we put all our efforts together, we will definitely succeed.

In any case, residents of the Moscow region will be able to adequately object to the great German thinker and philosopher Karl Marx and force the authorities to fulfill their canonical functions.