Important Questions in the Economics of the Production of Basic Building Materials

Abstract

The decision of the CC of the CPSU and of the Council of ministers of the U.S.S.R. "Concerning the Development of Housing Construction in the U.S.S.R.," set an important historical task: in the shortest possible time to obtain a substantial increase of the housing fund, so that in the next ten to twelve years, the housing shortage in the country can be ended. For 1956 to 1960, the Party and the Government established the volume of state housing construction at a total of 215 million square feet of floor space. This is ten million square meters more than the task set in the directive of the 20th Congress of the CPSU. Moreover, during this five-year plan, there should be built in the cities, settlements of the city type, M.T.S., soviet farms, and industrial lumber camps, at the expense of the population itself and with help of state credits, houses with a total floor area of 113 million square feet, and in the rural area at the expense of the members of the collective farms and rural intelligentsia, four million houses. These three sources for the growth of floor area for housing during the current five-year plan should add almost half a billion square meters of floor area.