Text file: 6081.txt
author: mr M
downvotes: 8
end consideration date: 2014-09-11
id: '6081'
number comments: 38
number views: 4034
proposal type: Competent authority response
response: "Response from the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning\nThe\
  \ vast majority of Slovenians want to own their own home. That is why 90% of all\
  \ housing is privately owned, which puts us, together with Romania, at the top of\
  \ the ranking for the share of privately owned housing. The construction of new\
  \ housing or apartment blocks puts considerable pressure on municipalities to define\
  \ new buildable land in their spatial planning acts, which is contrary to the current\
  \ spatial strategy, which mandates the rational use of existing buildable land,\
  \ the prevention of the expansion of settlements on good quality agricultural land\
  \ and advocates the preservation of polycentric development and the preservation\
  \ of rural settlement. As a result, there is less new developable land, especially\
  \ in or near major development centres, than there is demand for it, which drives\
  \ up the price of new developable land. New residential zones also require the construction\
  \ of new municipal infrastructure, which further increases the price. However, the\
  \ state should not intervene directly in the real estate market, especially as regards\
  \ the price of the construction itself, which is always carried out by private contractors.\n\
  This does not mean, of course, that the State is not looking for solutions to increase\
  \ access to housing. The informal public debate on the draft of the new National\
  \ Housing Programme, in which increasing access to housing is one of the important\
  \ themes, has recently come to an end. The draft, based on a consensus of the profession\
  \ and organisations working in the field of public housing provision, identifies\
  \ that in the future, significant efforts and resources will be directed towards\
  \ the construction of public rental housing, where rents will be designed to preserve\
  \ the value of the assets invested at the lowest rent that is still sustainable.\
  \ The State or the municipalities will continue to be obliged to contribute an appropriate\
  \ share of the rent granted to all those households which are recognised by the\
  \ social work centres as receiving social assistance.\nThe adoption of this housing\
  \ programme, together with the reformed housing legislation, will provide clear\
  \ guidance to the Housing Fund of the Republic of Slovenia (HF RS) and to municipalities\
  \ or their funds on what is expected of these public institutions. In the framework\
  \ of the renewed legislation, together with the Ministry of Finance and the local\
  \ government department, we are looking for solutions that would clearly oblige\
  \ municipalities to take care of the provision of housing for their inhabitants,\
  \ and a change in the role of the SSRS, which should not primarily be a builder\
  \ of housing for the market, is foreseen.\nThe initiative to make it easier and\
  \ cheaper to obtain the necessary permits to build housing is linked to building\
  \ or spatial planning legislation. The Ministry or the Directorate for Spatial Planning,\
  \ together with professional organisations, has been working for about a year on\
  \ the basis of a Government decision to overhaul the system of spatial planning\
  \ and building legislation, as analyses and data available to us have also shown\
  \ that radical changes are needed in this area. Thus, the theses and the first solutions\
  \ that have been drawn up also address the problems that are today prolonging the\
  \ permitting process and making construction more expensive. In the area of permitting,\
  \ we are looking for solutions to reduce the number of opinions and consents required\
  \ at the building permit stage, and in the area of pre-construction costs, we are\
  \ examining alternative solutions to the entrenched way in which the municipal contribution\
  \ is calculated and paid, with the aim of sharing the burden of this cost more equitably\
  \ and reducing and spreading it over a longer period, before, during and, above\
  \ all, after the completion of the construction.\nIt follows from what has been\
  \ said that the State is well aware of the problems you mention and that, for this\
  \ reason, the expert services of our and other ministries have been working for\
  \ some time on programmatic, legislative and financial solutions to them. We expect\
  \ that some of these measures and solutions will already be in place in the coming\
  \ year.\n "
response date: 2014-10-21
response due date: null
sent date: 2014-08-13
title: Government to make it cheaper for young people to buy property
upvotes: 17
url: https://predlagam.vladi.si/predlog/6081
