In January-August 2017 as much as 2,335,600m2 of housing was commissioned, including 359,200m2 with state support.
Housing construction (in million m2):
2007 – 4.66,
2008 – 5.08,
2009 – 5.71,
2010 – 6.63,
2011 – 5.48,
2012 – 4.48,
2013 – 5.22,
2014 – 5.52,
2015 – 5.06,
2016 – 4.29,
January-August 2017 – 2.34.
There are plans to increase the available housing per capita up to 27.3m2 by 2020. The available housing per capita in Belarus stood at 26.8m2 at the end of 2016. Decrepit houses and unsafe houses represented 0.1% of the total housing stock.
Decrepit housing (in thousand m2):
2005 – 389.9;
2010 – 278.8;
2011 – 251.8;
2012 – 228.4;
2013 – 208.7;
2014 – 210.4;
2015 – 192.6;
2016 – 178.8.
Unsafe housing (in thousand m2):
2005 – 60.1;
2010 – 61.4;
2011 – 61.5;
2012 – 64.6;
2013 – 74.2;
2014 – 77.6;
2015 – 75.2;
2016 – 65.3.
Source: The National Statistics Committee of Belarus.