OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2012. The Government adopted resolution number 967 at its meeting on 24 October 2012, which extended action of the State Program for youth housing, by 2017.

"Only this year under the current program commissioned 20 houses. By the end of this year is expected commissioning of another 40 houses in which youth - Program participants will receive more than 2.5 thousand apartments with a total area of almost 188 thousand square meters. Success continued for the next five years will provide housing for more than 16,000 young families and single young people, to build 1 million 47 thousand square meters of housing", - Anatoliy Blyznyuk said.

The current state program providing young people with housing for 2002-2012 approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated July 29, 2002 № 1089. During its actions from 2002 to 2011 to solve the housing problem of young people from the state budget was allocated 584 million, and local budgets - even 314 million. It was granted the 7124 soft-term loans to young families and single young people for construction (reconstruction) and housing. It was built and put into operation 648 buildings total 35,170 flats.

It is expected that by the end of 2012, the total funding from all sources for the entire period of the program will be 3.8 billion. Total number of young families who received housing under the program by the end of this year will be 30.5 thousand, and the volume of new housing will exceed 2.6 million square meters.