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Released by the Provincial Housing and Construction Department
Notice on the Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing
By 2025,
The province plans to build and rebuild more than 365,000 sets (rooms) of rental housing.
Annual increase in urban housing rents does not exceed 5%
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Fuzhou Qilei New City. Photo by Chen Nuan
Implementation opinions on accelerating the development of affordable rental housing
In order to implement the Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing (Guo Ban Fa [2021] No. 22), the following opinions are hereby put forward on accelerating the development of affordable rental housing (hereinafter referred to as "guaranteed rental housing") in our province.
I. Guiding Ideology
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 19th Plenary Session, adhere to the people-centered development thinking, adhere to the general tone of the work of seeking progress in a stable manner, base ourselves on the new development stage, implement the new development concept, serve and integrate into the new development pattern, closely follow the important requirements of the "four greater", adhere to the positioning that houses are used to live, not to speculate, adhere to the combination of rent and purchase, deepen the structural reform of the supply side of housing as the main line, accelerate the improvement of public rental housing, The housing security system with guaranteed rental housing and co-ownership housing as the main body effectively increases the supply of guaranteed rental housing, alleviates the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups, promotes the construction of a new type of urbanization with people as the core, and promotes the realization of "living and living" for all people.
Second, promote development according to local conditions
(1) Clarify the key development of cities. All localities should be demand-oriented and make overall plans for the development of affordable rental housing in accordance with the work direction of "new citizens, small apartments, low rents, favorable occupations, and long rental periods". Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other large cities with net population inflow should be regarded as key cities for the development of affordable housing, and efforts should be made to increase the proportion of affordable housing in housing supply; other cities can develop affordable housing according to changes in the size of the local population, industrial development, etc., and adjust to key development cities after reporting to the provincial government for approval in light of the development situation.
(2) Scientifically formulate development goals. By 2025, the province plans to build and reconstruct more than 365,000 sets (rooms) of guaranteed rental housing. Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities determined by the provincial government should, on the basis of comprehensively understanding the demand and the situation of existing land and housing resources, determine the development goals of guaranteed rental housing during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, clarify the main tasks and development priorities during the planning period, of which the proportion of new rental housing units in Fuzhou and Xiamen should strive to reach 30% of the total number of new housing supply, and announce it to the public.
(3) Reasonably determine the mode of development. Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities identified by the provincial government should combine the supply and demand and quality of existing rental housing, adhere to the combination of rent in kind and rental subsidies, optimize and adjust the incremental housing structure, revitalize the stock of land and housing resources, and vigorously develop guaranteed rental housing. Other cities and counties in the province with demand are mainly based on rental subsidies, focusing on revitalizing stock resources and steadily developing affordable housing.
Third, implement various support policies
(4) Make overall plans for the good use of land resources. Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities identified by the provincial government, under the premise of complying with the relevant provisions of Circular [2021] No. 22 issued by the State Council, may explore the use of collective operation construction land for the construction of guaranteed rental housing, and their land use rights may be mortgaged; it is allowed to use the land that enterprises and institutions have obtained the right to use in accordance with the law to build a guaranteed rental house, change the land use, and do not pay the land price, and the originally allocated land may continue to retain the allocation method The upper limit of the land area used for the construction of administrative office and living service facilities in industrial parks can be increased from 7% to 15%, and the increase can be mainly used for the construction of dormitory-type rental housing; it is allowed to convert idle and inefficiently used non-residential stock houses into guaranteed rental housing, without changing the nature of land use, and not paying back the land price; appropriately using new supply of state-owned construction land to develop affordable housing. Other cities and counties in the province with demand can use the new state-owned construction land to allocate construction, rebuild non-residential housing, and encourage the unified construction and development of rental housing in industrial parks in accordance with the rental housing land.
(5) Implement preferential fiscal and taxation policies. The preferential tax policies for rental housing projects shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Ministry of Finance, the State Administration of Taxation and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on Improving the Tax Policies Related to Housing Rental (No. 24 [2021]). Urban infrastructure supporting fees are waived for rental housing projects. For the use of non-residential stock land and non-residential stock housing to build a guaranteed rental house, the civil water and electricity prices shall be implemented. For rental housing projects that meet the requirements, actively strive for financial support such as investment within the central budget and special projects for affordable housing projects in central cities and towns, and actively apply for special bond support.
(6) Raise the level of financial support. Establish and improve the docking mechanism with financial institutions, support the broadening of financing channels for rental housing projects, guide banking financial institutions to increase credit support for guaranteed housing projects that meet credit conditions, and improve loan statistics suitable for guaranteed rental housing in accordance with the national real estate financial policy; support financial institutions to carry out financial product and service innovation for guaranteed housing projects, and support qualified rental housing construction and operation enterprises to issue bond financing in the interbank market. Support eligible rental housing projects to apply for infrastructure real estate investment trusts (REITs) pilots.
Fourth, strengthen project construction management
(7) Actively guide multi-party participation. The people's governments of cities that develop affordable rental housing should give full play to the role of the government, enterprises, social organizations and other types of entities, in accordance with the "one place, one policy, one room, one policy" organization to sort out and publish qualified land and housing information and corresponding support policies and measures, promote the docking of market entities with enterprises and institutions, rural collective economic organizations, industrial parks and other cooperation entities with development of rental housing needs, adhere to the "who invests, who owns", and encourage state-owned enterprises to participate in the construction and supply of guaranteed rental housing through various means. Support professional market entities to participate in the construction and operation management of rental housing.
(8) Strengthen annual planning arrangements. In the fourth quarter of each year, all localities determine the next year's rental housing plan (including the project construction list and the number of rental subsidies issued) according to demand, and after the consent of the districted municipal government, report it to the relevant provincial departments. For rental housing that has received supplementary funds for the development of the housing rental market supported by the central government, idle shack resettlement housing and public rental housing that have been used as guaranteed rental housing after being revitalized according to regulations, they should be included in the annual guaranteed rental housing plan (but shall not be supported by subsidy funds repeatedly).
(9) Do a good job of ensuring the use of land for planning. The development of affordable housing cities should be in accordance with the principle of balance between work and housing, combined with the distribution of population and employment, public transportation and public service facilities layout, priority should be given to the use of stock land and housing located in urban centers, industrial parks, convenient transportation areas or areas with large rental demand such as hospitals, schools, commercial complexes, etc. For new residential land, a certain proportion of ordinary commercial housing projects can be adopted to build a certain proportion of rental housing, and can also be relatively concentrated construction, and the spatial layout and land use planning of affordable housing can be carried out. Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities identified by the provincial government encourage the construction of a certain proportion of insured rental housing in the property built on the subway. In order to increase the proportion of land supply for guaranteed rental housing in residential land, when compiling the annual land supply plan for residential land, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities determined by the provincial government should separately list the rental housing land plan and priority arrangement, and the guaranteed rental land should be guaranteed to the fullest, and the supply can be provided by means of transfer, lease or allocation, of which the rental price and adjustment method of the guaranteed rental house can be taken as the precondition for the transfer or lease, and the transfer price shall be allowed to be collected in installments.
(10) Optimize the floor area standards. Actively develop small-sized rental housing suitable for the characteristics of new citizens and young people, and new projects are mainly small apartments with a construction area of no more than 70 square meters, which can be matched with no more than 20% and an area of no more than 90 square meters (the area standards that have been started or built can be appropriately relaxed, and the large and unsuitable for transformation can be rented by room). For the construction of centralized rental housing, it should be implemented in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on the Applicable Standards for the Construction of Centralized Rental Housing (JianbanBiao [2021] No. 19).
(11) Simplify the project approval process. All localities should streamline the examination and approval matters and links of rental housing projects, incorporate them into the approval management system for engineering construction projects, and implement reform measures such as parallel approval, joint acceptance, and notification and commitment system. For cities that use non-residential stock land and non-residential housing to build guaranteed rental housing, it is necessary to promulgate and publish relevant implementation rules, and establish a working mechanism for joint review of construction plans led by the government and with the participation of relevant departments. It is necessary to strengthen the supervision of project quality and safety, do a good job in fire protection design review and acceptance, and conduct housing reliability appraisal before the non-residential stock house is converted into a guaranteed rental house, and the reconstruction plan must meet the requirements for safe use.
Fifth, strict supervision of the operation process
(12) Establish rent control mechanisms. All localities should guide and control the rent of guaranteed rental housing in accordance with the principle of "the income of tenants is affordable and the operation of leasing enterprises is sustainable". The rent of the guaranteed rental housing should be lower than the rent of the rental housing in the same quality market in the same area, and the specific rental level can be determined and announced to the public according to the different support policies such as the construction method of each rental housing project, the government subsidy, the low-interest loan, and the land concession. It is necessary to improve the rent monitoring system and regularly entrust third-party institutions to assess and publish the rent level of rental housing in the market. It is necessary to establish and improve the credit evaluation system for housing rental enterprises and their employees, strengthen the evaluation of rent levels and other content, adopt differentiated regulatory measures at different levels and classifications, and increase urban housing rents by no more than 5% per year.
(13) Standardize housing rental operations. The guaranteed rental housing focuses on the new citizens and young people without housing in the urban area, and gives priority to the housing difficult groups engaged in basic public services among the new citizens, in principle, there is no income threshold condition, and the employer is supported to apply for centralized application, which uses the idle land owned by enterprises and institutions and the supporting land of the industrial park to build the guaranteed rental housing, and the guarantee object can give priority to meeting the needs of the unit and the staff of the park. Establish and improve the housing rental supervision and service platform, implement multi-departmental information sharing and joint supervision, implement online registration of lease contracts, include rents in regulatory accounts in accordance with regulations, and report rent allocation plans to urban housing departments for the record. For those who need to withdraw from the list management after the expiration of the period of operation of the guaranteed rental housing or other objective reasons, they need to consult with the competent departments or institutions that give support policies, and after review and approval by the people's governments of the districted cities, report to the relevant provincial-level departments for the record. The operation and management unit of the guaranteed rental housing should strengthen maintenance, implement the responsibility for fire safety, and improve the emergency early warning and disposal mechanism.
(14) Strengthen the management of project ownership. Newly built rental housing projects shall implement the overall confirmation of rights, and shall not handle the property rights of separate households, and indicate the words "guaranteed rental housing" and the nature of the land use on the certificate of ownership of real estate, and the house and land shall not be divided for registration, division and transfer or division of mortgage. Guaranteed rental housing shall not be listed for sale or disguised sales, and it is strictly forbidden to operate in violation of the law or cheat preferential policies in the name of guaranteed rental housing. All localities should promulgate detailed rules for the management of the transfer of ownership such as the overall transfer of guaranteed rental housing projects or the transfer of equity by major investors, so as to ensure that the nature, land use and land acquisition method of the original guaranteed rental housing remain unchanged after the transfer. Among them, the rental housing allocated by industrial enterprises within the scope of land for production and living facilities shall not be transferred separately, and the land for industrial projects that meet the conditions of laws and regulations and contracts shall be transferred as a whole according to parcels.
VI. Complete organizational safeguard mechanisms
(15) Consolidate the responsibility of urban entities. The people's governments of all cities are mainly responsible for the development of affordable housing in their respective regions and the promotion and solution of housing problems for groups with housing difficulties, and should determine development goals, introduce specific operational measures for the implementation of relevant support policies such as land, establish a work leadership and promotion mechanism led by the government and with the participation of relevant departments, and strengthen the supervision and management of the whole process of planning, construction, rental and operation of affordable housing.
(16) Strengthen overall planning and coordination. The provincial government has set up a special working group for the development of affordable housing, the office is located in the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and all relevant departments and units have strengthened coordination and formed synergy in accordance with their duties to ensure that various policies are implemented in place. As required, regularly monitor and evaluate the development of rental housing in Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and other key development cities identified by the provincial government, focusing on the results achieved in promoting the solution of housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups, and the evaluation work is included in the performance appraisal.
Source: Southeast Network Integrated Fujian Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development official website