Provision of housing for population discussed at Kazakh Government

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - First Vice Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Bakytzhan Sagintayev has chaired today a conference call on the issues of provision of housing for the population, Kazinform has learnt from primeminister.kz.

The telephone conference brought together members of parliament, heads of central government bodies, governors of regions, and mayors of Astana and Almaty cities.

Vice Minister of Regional Development Serik Nokin noted a decision had been made to construct economy class compact housing for the population as part of the 2020 Affordable Housing State Program.

MP Dariga Nazarbayev stressed the need to encourage and stimulate investors to build social housing and map out the uniform projects of social facilities.

In conclusion, Mr. Sagintayev gave an instruction to ensure effective and timely implementation of the state program and stressed 'such issues should be debated together with the population.'