During the exposé, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said “we would be working on left -handed projects about apartments.” Everything indicates that this was not an announcement like “what a pity to promise”.
First, three months after the government accepted, A draft amendment to the Act on social forms of residential development was sent to the Sejm. He predicts that in 2025 the government will allocate at least PLN 2.5 billion for this purpose (2024 it was PLN 1 billion).
By 2030, the limit of expenditure on municipal apartments and such a cheap rent is to amount to PLN 45 billion. Now, as Tomasz Lewandowski, deputy minister of development and technology on behalf of the left, says, Further changes are waiting for an entry in the list of legislative work of the Council of Ministers. It is a project regarding the ownership of premises, the protection of tenants 'rights and housing allowances of the ownership of premises and the protection of tenants' rights.
In an interview with Business Insider, which we will publish tomorrow, the deputy minister reveals the details of changes in the municipal lease and funding rules for housing investments. It turns out that Tomasz Lewandowski, a former vice president of Poznań, who was responsible for the economy of premises, and he also prepared Further housing projects. One of them is revolutionary because it turns perpetual usufruct.
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PiS liquidated, the coalition will restore?
We would like to remind you that perpetual usufruct for housing purposes in 2018 was liquidated by PiS, but thanks to this millions of Poles for a small fee, because with a statutory discount, they became the owners of the land on which there is, for example, a block in which they have a flat. At the same time, however, the possibility for local governments or the State Treasury to be transferred to perpetual usufruct for housing. And this wants to change Deputy Minister Lewandowski. Why?
– Perpetual use is a very strong property law, already known in ancient times and is worth using it. It seems that during PiS rule it has been forgotten. The point is that the local government or the state would not get rid of land ownership, and for a long time give them to entities interested in achieving important goals, i.e. housing policy. The investor will be able to receive land for use, provided he builds apartments on it – says Deputy Minister Lewandowski.
However, this is not the end. The ministry wants to introduce a new category of perpetual usufruct for the purposes of social housing.
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Social investments on better conditions
-Municipal companies, including TBS and SIMs, will be the beneficiaries of establishing such a right. We also anticipate a lower initial fee and a definitely lower annual fee – explains the deputy minister.
Before the liquidation of perpetual usufruct, the problem was the amount of the annual fee, of 3 percent. land values. When the price of the land grew, fees grew.
As deputy minister Lewandowski explains, The fee must remain in relation to the value of the land, but it will be lower than it used to be.
– It will be several times less, we think 10 percent. – says the deputy minister.
– The point is that there is no so -called Entrance barriers in the form of the need to buy land or a high fee for establishing perpetual usufruct. Secondly, for the annual fee to be low and does not adversely affect the rate of rent paid by tenants. We offer a rate of 0.3 percent. plot values. As a result, perpetual usufruct will be the mechanism that will give local governments and state authorities much more opportunities to conduct an active housing policy than at present – he emphasizes.
Housing cooperatives will benefit from the new law
There will be one more new one. Housing cooperatives will also be able to use the right to use land for housing purposes.
– We want to include housing cooperatives in the country's housing policy. We have prepared a large amendment to the act that will reform housing cooperatives, and thus will be able to become a reliable partner of the state and local governments – emphasizes Lewandowski.
Restoration of perpetual usufruct right is one of the elements of obtaining land for housing, whose prices have recently increased.
The data of the National Bank of Poland shows that in 2023 as much as 57 percent Investors had difficulty purchasing land for development, while a year earlier it was 34 percent. Tomasz Lewandowski is still counting on an agreement on the launch of land belonging to the National Agricultural Support Center and State Treasury Support Center for social construction.
