Gansu: Develop mainly small affordable rental housing of no more than 70 square meters

In order to help solve the housing difficulties of new citizens, young people and other groups, on December 1, the General Office of the Gansu Provincial People's Government issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Affordable Rental Housing." The "Opinions" follow the principles of "government guidance, market operation, adapting measures to local conditions, custom-building according to needs, fully tapping potential, and prioritizing existing stocks" and "whoever invests, owns it" and "only rents, not sells", and the government provides land, taxation, finance and other policies Support and guide multi-entity investment and multi-channel supply, give full play to the role of market mechanisms, develop small-sized, low-rent affordable rental housing with a building area of ??no more than 70 square meters, alleviate the structural supply shortage in the housing rental market, and promote Realize that all people have a place to live.

The Gansu Provincial Government will establish a coordination group for affordable rental housing, with Vice Governor Li Peixing as the leader. The "Implementation Opinions" stated that Lanzhou, as a large city with a net population inflow, should make full use of various support policies to vigorously develop affordable rental housing; other cities can develop affordable rental housing based on actual needs.

In terms of implementing land support policies, Gansu allows enterprises and institutions to use land that has obtained use rights in accordance with the law to build affordable rental housing and change the land use without paying back the land use price. Land can continue to be allocated. Land use right holders are allowed to develop affordable rental housing through self-construction or cooperative construction and operation with other market entities.

Under the premise of ensuring safety, the upper limit of the land area used for supporting administrative offices and living service facilities for industrial projects in industrial parks can be increased from 7% to 15% of the total project area. It is mainly used for the construction of dormitory-type affordable rental housing, and the construction of complete sets of commercial housing is strictly prohibited. Encourage the concentration of land area or building area corresponding to the supporting proportion of each industrial project in the industrial park, and uniformly build dormitory-type affordable rental housing.

Idle and inefficient non-residential housing stock (including commercial offices, warehousing, scientific research and education buildings, hotels, factories, etc.) are allowed to be converted into affordable rental housing; the safety performance of the houses should be assessed before reconstruction , to ensure that the requirements for safe use are met; during the period when non-residential housing stock is renovated and used as affordable rental housing, the nature of land use will not be changed and no land use price will be paid. Non-residential buildings whose land properties are Category III industrial land and Category III logistics and warehousing land shall not be converted into centralized rental housing.

Support the appropriate use of newly added construction land to build affordable rental housing. Construction land should be arranged in and around industrial parks, near rail transit stations and key urban construction areas to promote the integration of industry, city and people, and the linkage between people, land and housing. Land for affordable rental housing can be supplied by transfer, lease or allocation. If it is supplied by transfer or lease, the rental price and adjustment method can be used as preconditions, and the transfer price can be collected in installments. We can explore the use of rural collective commercial construction land to build affordable rental housing. On the basis of respecting the collective wishes of farmers and with the consent of the urban people's government, we can explore the use of collective commercial construction land in urban areas, close to industrial parks or areas with convenient transportation to build affordable rental housing; rural collective economic organizations can build affordable rental housing through self-construction or joint venture, Construction and operation of affordable rental housing through equity participation and other methods; mortgage loans can be obtained for the collective operating construction land use rights for the construction of affordable rental housing.

In terms of finance and taxation, Gansu will implement supporting policies in terms of credit, bonds, funds, taxes and fees. When non-residential stock land and non-residential stock housing are used to build or renovate affordable rental housing, after obtaining the project certification certificate, the prices of water, electricity, gas and heating shall be in accordance with civil residential standards.

For example, increase credit support for the construction and operation of affordable rental housing, and support banking financial institutions in providing long-term loans to self-owned entities of affordable rental housing in a market-oriented manner; In accordance with the principles of control and commercial sustainability, loans are provided to housing leasing enterprises that renovate and renovate existing houses to form non-own-property affordable rental housing. Improve loan statistics suitable for affordable rental housing, and provide differentiated treatment when implementing real estate credit management.

Support banking financial institutions from issuing financial bonds and raising funds for the issuance of affordable rental housing loans. Support enterprises in issuing corporate bonds, corporate bonds, non-financial enterprise debt financing instruments and other corporate credit bonds for the construction and operation of affordable rental housing.

If an enterprise holds and operates affordable rental housing with sustained and stable cash flow, it can use the property mortgage as credit enhancement and issue housing rental guaranteed bonds. Support insurance funds to participate in the construction of rental housing in accordance with market-oriented principles. Support enterprises in the construction, renovation and operation of affordable rental housing to issue real estate investment trust funds (REITs) for financing.

Actively strive for central government support for affordable rental housing construction projects that meet regulations in Gansu Province, and provide certain support from existing special projects under provincial fiscal coordination. Relevant cities should prepare project plans and reserves in advance, prepare project implementation lists, speed up preliminary work, guide implementation entities to actively raise project funds, implement project construction conditions, and ensure that projects are completed on schedule.

For enterprises, institutions, social groups and other organizations that rent housing to individuals or professional and large-scale housing leasing enterprises, the property tax will be levied at a reduced rate of 4%. Qualified housing leasing enterprises that rent housing to individuals shall pay value-added tax at a levy rate of 5% reduced by 1.5%. If a housing leasing enterprise rents housing to individuals using the prescribed simplified tax calculation method and makes prepayment, the value-added tax shall be paid in advance at a reduced prepayment rate of 1.5%. For affordable rental housing built using non-residential stock land and non-residential housing stock (including commercial office buildings and houses converted from industrial plants and rented out for living), after obtaining the certificate of affordable rental housing project certification, the above policies shall be followed implement. Urban infrastructure supporting fees are exempted for affordable rental housing projects.