Ulaanbaatar
Parliament members inquire into ‘Rental Apartment’ program
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Member of Parliament, Head of Parliamentary Standing committee on Petitionary D.Sarangerel and Member of Parliament and the committee B.Enkh-Amgalan worked at State Housing Corporation on January 17 to look over the implementation of ‘Rental Apartment’ program.
In accordance with relevant Cabinet resolutions, former Housing Fund Corporation was renamed State Housing Corporation.
“Majority of the petitions sent to the Standing committee on Petitionary concern environmental issues and livelihood problems. Especially, we’ve received thousands of petitions regarding the suspension of rental apartment program”, said D.Sarangerel, inquiring into the activities of and policies realized by the State Housing Corporation.
The ‘Rental Apartment’ program was approved by Parliament in July, 2015, and the decision to launch the program was taken by Cabinet in February, 2016. Applicable to certain social groups including the underprivileged and disabled, the program is significant for providing rental apartments at a price cheaper than the market price.
In frames of the program, State Housing Corporation began the transfer of 929 apartments built in Ulaanbaatar and provinces which were built by order of the corporation to state rental apartment reserve, and plans to rent the apartments in compliance with the corresponding regulations.
As of present, 360 apartments built in Ulaanbaatar and Darkhan-Uul, Selenge, Khovd,Uvs and Khentii provinces have been transferred the state rental apartment reserve, but registration and selection procedures for rent haven’t been executed.
State Housing Corporation is working towards realizing the ‘Rental Apartment’ program between 2016 and 2021, and formulating reserves of 16 thousand apartments in Ulaanbaatar and 4 thousand in provinces.
As such, Member of Parliament D.Sarangerel gave an instruction to take urgent measures directed at renting the 360 apartments which have already been transferred to state rental apartment reserve.
