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Housing stock increased by 1.1%
In 2013, housing in Azerbaijan increased by 1.9 million m2 or 1.1%, and reached at the beginning of 2014 to 164.1 million m2, the State Statistics Committee told Turan.
Due to the slow pace of privatization of public housing, as well as the construction of housing for the displaced, at the beginning of 2014 in the state property are 9.3 million m2, which is 0.1 million m2 more than two years earlier. In this case refer to the residential part of the 6.5 million m2 of space.
In 3013, the housing stock in Azerbaijan grew mainly due to construction in urban areas (1.4 million m2). There is 17.7 m2 of housing per citizen, including living space - 11.9 m2. In rural areas these figures are below 0.1 m2 respectively. In 2011-2013, these figures did not change, in other words, the volume of housing is adequate to demographic growth.
Privatization of public housing flats by registering the name of the current tenants started in Azerbaijan since 1990. According to the SSC, to the beginning of 2013 was 452.2 thousand privatized apartments with a total area of over 25 million m2.
Since 1999, housing in Azerbaijan has increased by 55.7 million m2. - 08B-
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