Cities are starting to build new apartments. Cooperative housing is also starting up
It is almost impossible to buy these days, when there is already one available, most people cannot afford it. Many of them are attached to rental apartments. The town halls of many cities are trying to accommodate their residents and are embarking on the construction of apartment buildings on a large scale. Cities are also launching cooperative housing projects and the capital is not stopping either.
After several decades when urban apartments were in decline, a turnaround has come. Construction is now being planned by town halls all over the Czech Republic. For example, Prague has now started preparing projects, thanks to which up to 7,000 new apartments should be created.
“Recently, the council approved a project of up to 200 flats in the Vršovice locality in the Nové dvory locality. Also the Dolní Počernice locality. I think that a number of plots of land are now ready where projects for the construction of urban flats could gradually arise,” declared Prague councilor Hana Cordova Marvanová
City apartments are mainly for people in need, the disabled or teachers, paramedics, police officers or firefighters that the city needs. “Together, the 7,000 apartments can cost up to tens of billions of crowns. We mainly want to partially finance the construction from the budget of the city of Prague, but it is clear that there will not be that much money. That is why we are devising other financing models,” pointed out councilor Adam Zábranský (Pirates). .
Prague wants to cooperate with the private sector on the construction of some apartments, some of which are also to be created within the framework of cooperative housing. In the first such project in Prague 5, there are up to 266 apartments. They do the same in Brno. “This is actually for those who earn normally, but when it is true that they are not able to afford their own housing at the current price, we are now designing over a thousand cooperative apartments,” said Brno representative Jiří Oliva (ČSSD).
The first cooperative apartments should start to be built in the South Moravian metropolis at the end of next year. In addition, Brno is also planning several new city apartments. Like, for example, Liberec, they are now starting to build over a hundred new apartments there.
“We also support private construction and we intend to support the combined one as well, where both private investors and, for example, the city will participate with land. We have calculated that in the next election period we could start the construction of up to 5,000 apartments in this way,” said Liberec councilor Ivan Langr ( SLK).
Municipalities can receive subsidies from the State Housing Development Fund for the construction, but also for the reconstruction, of municipal apartments. Municipalities with up to 3,000 inhabitants can cover up to 90 percent of the costs.
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