ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 18. About 10 million square meters of housing have been put into operation in Kazakhstan from January through August 2023, which is 13 percent more than the same period last year, Trend reports.
The housing put into operation this year makes up 65 percent of the annual plan, which is 15.3 million square meters.
In total, 86,616 houses have been built throughout the republic, of which 22,368 are individual residential buildings. Investments in housing construction during the reporting period amounted to 1.7 trillion tenge (about $3.6 billion), which is 1.5 percent higher than in 2022.
The volume of new housing commissioning has increased in almost all regions: Ulytau (156.7 percent), Abay (128 percent), Almaty (103.5 percent), Zhetisu (106.8 percent), Pavlodar (115.8 percent), Akmola (103.2 percent), Turkestan (108.1 percent), East Kazakhstan (107.2 percent), Kostanay (103.6 percent), North Kazakhstan (105.1 percent), Kyzylorda (119.8 percent), Aktyubinsk (102.2 percent), Zhambyl (101.2 percent), West Kazakhstan (100.2 percent), the cities of Shymkent (119.4 percent), Almaty (122.5 percent), and Astana (139.5 percent). More moderate indicators are observed in the Karaganda (99 percent), Mangistau (96.3 percent), and Atyrau (73.3 percent) regions.
Within the framework of the Concept for the Development of Housing and Communal Infrastructure for 2023-2029, approved by order of the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, it is planned to build 111 million square meters of housing in Kazakhstan at the expense of all sources of financing.