How to get an apartment for free from the state

Our parents firmly knew: it is necessary to work at the enterprise for several years, and you will definitely receive an apartment from the state. For young professionals, there was a turn, and for the most impatient - housing cooperatives. Having entered into a cooperative, it was possible to purchase an apartment, paying the first symbolic contribution, and the remaining amount was divided into small payments. What prospects get a state apartment now?

If earlier every citizen could count on free accommodation, now the state finances the insignificant volumes of residential construction. The real estate market is made entirely on the commercial basis, and only unsecured layers of the population can count on a free apartment.

Social housing is the only option for low-income citizens to get an apartment. The so-called priorities can claim such housing: children who remained without parental care, and orphan children, families affected by emergency situations. Also, this category includes families where there are patients with tuberculosis, other chronic diseases, and also if in the family children infected with AIDS. Residents of emergency and dilapidated houses to be disclosed can also qualify for social housing.

According to the new housing code, the disabled of war or labor, the heroes of the USSR, as well as the families of the victims of the military can get social housing on the general basis. This rule also applies to heroine mothers and families with twins, as well as to rescuers and teachers, except that they fall under the category of poor and live in an apartment, which is less than the established social norm. How to determine what family is legally considered poor? Different insolvency criteria are installed in each region, so it is worth learn in the local authority, whether your family falls under this category and document this fact, filling out the necessary revenues and property documents for the last calendar year.

If your family meets all the requirements, you need to collect a package of documents for setting the queues of citizens who need to improve the living conditions. In addition to copy of the passport of family members and evidence of the birth of minor children, you need a certificate of family composition and documents for housing occupied, which confirm the right of ownership. A certificate of BTI is needed about whether family members have accommodation. You will also need other documents about the employment of all family members (pension insurance card and pension certificate, a copy of the employment record and a certificate of tax authorities, confirming that family members are not registered as individual entrepreneurs, a certificate of status register in the employment service or from the place study, about the passage of military service, etc.). It also requires a certificate of concluding or termination of a marriage and, of course, documents confirming the benefits of family members or medical certificates confirming the right to receive social housing. For residents in emergency or dilapidated homes it will be necessary to document the technical condition of the structure.

It is worthwing to know that social norms of providing housing are approved by local deputies. In a social apartment, you can register any person, even outsiders, if only the apartment area per person was not less than the established norm. This rule does not apply to minor children who have an unconditional right to live and be prescribed with their parents.

It is worth remembering that there is a lot of rules for using the unsuccessful social housing: it can be swapped only with the consent of the authorities. It is impossible to sell such an apartment, so it is necessary to privatize the apartment as soon as possible, so that there are no insoluble problems.