On June 27, at a meeting of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk Region, the Governor Vladimir Mazur reported on the work of the regional executive authority in 2023. The head of the region touched upon almost all pressing issues: construction and repair of schools, development of knowledge-intensive industries of the region, work on the project of the third bridge across the Tom, construction of new housing. Let's consider the prospects for turning plans into reality regarding the most urgent of them.
So, the housing issue, which, like a hundred years ago, spoils people in the event that they have nowhere to live, and the prospects for acquiring their own home are minimal. Mazur said that Tomsk is ahead of the SFO in terms of development of square meters, that we have a sharp increase in housing construction.
“Golden” squares
The governor assured the deputies that the city administration had signed an agreement on the integrated development of territories on the borders of Vershinina, Polina Osipenko streets and Promyshlennogo Lane. The same applies to Klyueva, Bolshaya Podgornaya, Irkutsky Trakt streets and a number of others. This is, of course, great – it gives hope that there will be many residential buildings in Tomsk. But the apartments will have to be bought by getting into slave-like mortgage conditions, and not everyone can afford this. The time when apartments were “given” has long since sunk into oblivion.
Tomskstat examined prices per square meter in Siberian Athens for the third quarter of 2023. So, in the primary market, according to statisticians, the average price of one square meter of housing in Tomsk was 106,638 rubles, in the secondary market – 90,992 rubles. The price varies depending on the cost and quality of the material of the external walls of the house. For example, in the primary real estate market, the most expensive “square” was found in monolithic and monolithic-brick houses. The most affordable – in large-panel and large-block. A similar situation is observed in the secondary market.
Tomskstat calculated that in the primary housing market prices in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the second quarter of 2023 increased by 5%. On the secondary market, prices for apartments increased by 3.6%. At the beginning of 2024, prices, of course, have increased. In a new building, one square meter costs 137,700 rubles, in the secondary housing market – 122,948 rubles. Thus, even a small one-room apartment will cost several million rubles. Let us smoothly move on to the second question – the level of wages in Tomsk.
If there is no money in the house…
Vladimir Mazur said that over the past five years, starting in 2018, the average salary in the Tomsk region has increased by 1.6 times. In particular, in the field of education, healthcare, culture and sports.
That's for sure. Incomes vary greatly. Tomskstat calculated the income of Tomsk residents and issued the “average temperature in the hospital” – 66,438 rubles. The department is confident that this is exactly what the majority of residents of Siberian Athens receive, but in fact this amount is one and a half times less, especially in the commercial sector. Don't forget about unemployment. So to the deputy governor for social politics Svetlana Gruznykh has questions.
By the way, according to the declaration for 2021, Svetlana GruznyX is the happy owner of six cars at once – Toyota Rav 4, VAZ 21093, VAZ 2114, Chevron CHEVRO, Let LET NIVA 212300-55 and Kia Ceed KIA CD CEED. She also has a trailer and two types of water transport. Why does Svetlana Nikolaevna need so many cars? But if she could afford a small fleet of vehicles at the time when she held the position of head of the department of labor and employment, then in the status of deputy governor for social politics It could well afford a couple of new apartments, probably. The salary in the “white” house will be higher than 66,438 rubles per month. Otherwise, having your own house and two apartments with an area of 106 and 39 square meters, according to the current status, will somehow not be enough…
By the way, in the chair of the head of the labor department, according to the declaration for 2021, Svetlana Nikolaevna received about two hundred thousand per month. It does not match the number and cost of cars. With such a deputy, you don't need enemies, but the king of the governor is made by his retinue.