At a panel discussion on 24 April 2018, IUE experts presented a review of international and national practices in urban development regulation for improved housing affordability.
N. Kosareva, IUE President, turning to the stages of development of the housing policy in Russia, noted three historic points of reference: a ‘give-away’ privatization of housing, development of housing and mortgage markets, improving the affordability of homeownership. She said that the stages had been linked to the most important priorities of each historic period and had been determined by certain stages of socio-economic development. “Today we have already approached a new stage of town-planning and housing policies, and new priorities are needed – high-quality urban environment and tough town-planning policy, for one part, and a new large-sale project on development of affordable rental housing, on the other part,” concluded N. Kosareva.
