Experts predict: building affordable housing costs about 320 billion a year

Xinhua Beijing June 17 (reporter Lo Yufan, Zhu) Development Research Center of the State Council, Deputy Minister of Social Development Research Lin Jiabin in the "2009 Cities in China International Summit" on the forecast, in order to complete the housing security system cover, our country each year to spend about 320 billion yuan,　　Equivalent to 1.06% of GDP in 2008. According to Lin Jiabin estimates, China's existing 147 million urban floating population, if 60 million of them for housing security objects, an equivalent of 20 million households.　　Each year to solve 20% of the 4 million households, even if all are based on new Low-cost housing calculation, the total cost of about 320 billion yuan.　　Lin Jiabin said that since there would actually be a substantial part of the protection target can be solved by rent subsidy, the actual amount of funds needed is even less than this estimate, so the government can gradually solve the housing security problem of urban population within the financial burden.　　The 2009 government work report proposed, for three years, to solve the 7.5 million urban low-income families and 2.4 million households, reclamation, coal-shanty residents of the housing problems.　　According to Lin Jiabin, according to this goal, by the end of 2011, the domestic population of urban households will achieve the full coverage of low-income housing hardship. Lin Jiabin also suggested that, starting from 2012, housing-needy households in the urban non permanent resident population could gradually be included in the housing security target. "At the beginning, the protection object can be limited to a stable job, the employing unit may provide the employment certificate and the provision of the responsibility guarantee, has the minor child's scope, after the time ripe then expands the coverage scope accordingly."　　"Lin Jiabin said. Lin Jiabin said that the existing level of living in the community's recognized basic living needs of the residents should be the object of protection. "If only the city's registered population as a security object, and to create wealth for the city of migrant workers and their families excluded, it is clearly contrary to the principle of fairness." ”