"United Russia" defended the allocation to the regions of federal funds for the repair of courtyard areas of apartment buildings and the improvement of settlements with a population of over one thousand people. This was announced by Secretary of the General Council of the party Andrei Turchak.. Earlier it became known that the rules of granting subsidies were supposed to exclude settlements, where more than 1 thousand. man extending the program to cities only. At the same time, it was proposed to allocate funding for the repair of yard areas to municipalities and extra-budgetary sources. “The EP has categorically opposed such a decision,” Turchak said. He said that this issue was raised at a meeting of the Commission to monitor the implementation of the electoral program of the EP in October. The party’s position was supported by the chairman of the EP, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev. "As a result, we managed to protect the current model of allocating federal funds for the repair of courtyards of apartment buildings, as well as for the improvement of settlements with a population of over one thousand people.

Now this program will continue its work in 2019, "said Turchak. He recalled that the task of improving small cities and towns in the regions of the country was set by President Vladimir Putin in a message to the Federal Assembly.

"United Russia" solves it in the framework of the party project "Urban Environment", and decides very successfully and effectively. This is proved by the numerous appeals of residents in which they are asked to preserve the EP program on the improvement of courtyards, the Secretary of the General Council of the Party. In 2019. 43.2 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the improvement of courtyards and public areas, which is twice as much as before.. Within three years about 120 billion rubles will be allocated for these purposes..