What were the rural dilapidated house renovation policies in 2016?

A dilapidated house refers to a house whose structure has been seriously damaged or whose load-bearing components have become dangerous components, which may lose structural stability and load-bearing capacity at any time, and cannot guarantee the safety of living and use. China's rural dilapidated house renovation and agricultural reclamation dilapidated house renovation are part of the national affordable housing project. Let's take a look at the 2016 rural dilapidated house renovation policies below!

Scope of Subsidies for Rural Dilapidated House Renovation

1. Decentralized support households under the five guarantees: Decentralized support households under the five guarantees refer to those five-guarantee households that have not been placed in nursing homes and still live scattered in rural areas. In principle, rural dilapidated house renovation subsidy funds are only allocated to rural decentralized support five-guarantee households who have no house or live in dilapidated houses.

2. Households receiving the minimum living allowance: Households receiving the minimum living allowance refer to farming households that are relatively poor, have enjoyed the national minimum living allowance policy, and hold a minimum living allowance certificate issued by the civil affairs department.

3. Poor disabled person households: Poor disabled person households refer to farming households whose family life is relatively poor and who hold a disabled person certificate issued by the disabled persons' federation department.

4. Other poor households: Other poor households refer to disadvantaged farming households that are relatively financially strained and whose income is below the local poverty line.

Circumstances of Subsidy Recipients for Dilapidated House Renovation

1. For any household listed as a subsidy recipient for rural dilapidated house renovation, the house in which it lives must be identified as a Grade C or Grade D dilapidated house in accordance with the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Technical Guidelines for the Identification of Dangerous Rural Houses (Trial)". Houses that are not Grade C or Grade D dilapidated houses cannot be listed as subsidy recipients for rural dilapidated house renovation.

2. To determine a household with no house as a subsidy recipient for rural dilapidated house renovation, it must be the financially most difficult farming household, namely one belonging to decentralized support five-guarantee households, minimum living allowance households, poor disabled person households, or other poor households, and it must not have its own housing and must have long-term borrowed accommodation in village collective housing or private housing. Five-guarantee households, minimum living allowance households, and households whose houses collapsed due to disasters and who belong to poor farming households must be verified by the county-level civil affairs department, while poor disabled person households and other poor households must be verified by the county poverty alleviation office.

3. In the process of determining subsidy recipients for dilapidated house renovation, all localities should give priority to determining poor farming households with particularly weak self-funding capacity as subsidy recipients for dilapidated house renovation, and with government help renovate and build the most basic safe housing.

Application Conditions for Dilapidated House Renovation Subsidies

1. Rural dilapidated house renovation is carried out on a household basis, and the farming household submits the application. The applicant must simultaneously meet the following conditions: ① Have local agricultural household registration and live locally, and be the owner of the house property rights. ② Belong to a dilapidated house household registered in the rural dilapidated house baseline survey statistics. ③ Belong to any one type among rural decentralized support five-guarantee households, minimum living allowance households, poor disabled person households, or other poor households.

2. Farming households with any of the following circumstances cannot be determined as subsidy recipients: ① Those who have another safe house in the same village. ② Those whose housing is crowded and who need to split into separate households. ③ Those who already have permanent residential housing elsewhere (county seat, market town). ④ Those who do not belong to any one type among rural decentralized support five-guarantee households, minimum living allowance households, poor disabled person households, or other poor households.

Subsidy Standards for Rural Dilapidated House Renovation

According to the standards of 6500 yuan, 7500 yuan, and 9000 yuan per household in the eastern, central, and western regions, and at the same time according to the subsidy standard of 1200 yuan per capita, support the construction of supporting infrastructure such as heating for dilapidated house renovation.

Sample Application Letter for Rural Dilapidated House Renovation

________ Village Committee:

________ Township People's Government:

I am a farmer from ____ Group, ____ Village, ____ Township, with a family of ____ people. We currently have __ mud-brick rooms, about ____ square meters, including one kitchen and one room.

It has been __ years since the house was self-built, and in addition to being in disrepair for a long time, it has suffered wind and rain natural disasters for several consecutive years. Since ______, many cracks have appeared in the house, and the tiles on the roof often leak. At present, the house is already tottering, with cracked and tilted walls, rotted and disconnected beams and columns, a roof that lets light through, and falling tiles. Dangers lurk everywhere, and it has become a dilapidated house that cannot be lived in, endangering the lives and safety of the whole family.

My family is very poor and is a poor household. Apart from the crop harvest from farming and me working away from home alone, there is no other source of income. My elderly father and mother are already eighty years old, old and frequently ill, and can no longer go to the fields to work or go up the mountains to labor. My son and daughter are both in school now, and supporting their schooling is difficult. However, because the family is truly very poor, there is no spare money to renovate our housing. I myself have the will but not the strength, and have no economic means to improve our family's housing conditions so that family members can live with peace of mind. Due to financial difficulties, it is impossible to rebuild the house.

Now I am delighted to hear of the government's rural dilapidated house renovation project and related policies benefiting the people, and its protection of the people's lives and property safety, which keeps many dilapidated house households who live in fear amid wind and rain away from danger, making them weep with joy! Therefore I want to request a subsidy, and earnestly ask the village committee and township government to promptly verify the dangerous condition of the dilapidated house and help apply to higher authorities for funding assistance for dilapidated house renovation. I guarantee that the subsidy I apply for is only to improve my family's housing problem, and I will absolutely not do anything else unrelated to this. I earnestly request the leaders' approval! I hereby apply.

Applicant: __________

______ Year ____ Month ____ Day

Procedures for Determining Dilapidated House Renovation Subsidies

1. Voluntary application: The head of the household shall personally submit an application to the village committee at the place of household registration, and truthfully fill in and provide the following materials. ① Provincial rural dilapidated house renovation project application form. ② Household register, resident identity card and other materials. ③ Five-guarantee certificate, minimum living allowance certificate, disability certificate and other poverty and disability certificates issued by the competent department. After accepting the application, the village committee shall register it truthfully.

2. Villager democratic appraisal and public announcement: After receiving the application materials, the village committee at the applicant's place of household registration shall conduct investigation and verification by means such as household visits and neighborhood visits, and organize villagers to conduct open appraisal. During household investigation, at least 2 village cadres and at least 1 local villager shall participate. Village cadres and investigators shall respectively sign and seal the form. After the investigation and verification are completed, the village committee shall publicly announce the investigation results in the village affairs public bulletin board or the main villager activity venues, and the announcement period shall not be less than 7 days. If the masses have objections, verification shall be carried out promptly and the statements of the parties concerned shall be heard. If they do not meet the subsidy conditions, the qualification of the subsidy recipient shall be canceled. After the announcement period expires, the relevant materials shall be promptly sorted out and reported to the township (town) people's government.

3. Review and public announcement by the township (town) people's government: The township (town) people's government shall review the materials reported by the village committee and organize relevant personnel to conduct on-site household investigations of the applicants for dilapidated house renovation. For those with major disputes in the appraisal and objections in the public announcement, strict reexamination and verification must be carried out. After the township (town) completes the reexamination and verification, it shall publicly announce the list of proposed subsidy recipients who meet the conditions, the renovation method, and so on in the township (town) government affairs public bulletin board, village affairs public bulletin board, and main villager activity venues. The announcement period shall not be less than 7 days. If the masses have objections, the township (town) people's government shall promptly organize a recheck and hear the statements of the parties concerned. After the announcement period expires, the review results and relevant materials for which there are no objections or the objections are not established shall be promptly sorted and summarized and reported to the county (city, district) leading group for rural dilapidated house renovation. If upon review they do not meet the policy conditions, the relevant materials shall be returned to the village committee, and the village committee shall notify the applicant and explain the reasons in writing.

4. Approval and public announcement by the county (city, district) leading group for rural dilapidated house renovation.

① The county, city, and district housing and urban-rural development departments shall summarize the situation of each township (town), register the summarized situation in a ledger, and together with the county, city, and district civil affairs department or poverty alleviation department review the applicant's situation, review the relevant materials, and organize key reexamination and on-site spot checks for some applicants.

② Organize relevant department technical personnel and township construction administrators to go deep into farmers' homes, and in accordance with the standards of the "Technical Guidelines for the Identification of Dangerous Rural Houses (Trial)", investigate and assess the degree of house danger, and fill in the "Hunan Province Rural Dangerous House Identification Form". If the house in which the applicant lives is not a Grade C or Grade D dilapidated house, it shall not be reported for approval.

③ The county (city, district) leading group for rural dilapidated house renovation shall approve the applicant, renovation method, and subsidy funds, and publicly announce the approval results on the local television station or government website, with the announcement period not less than 7 days. If the masses have objections, promptly organize investigation and verification and hear the statements of the parties concerned. If approval is not granted, the county (city, district) leading group for rural dilapidated house renovation shall notify the applicant in writing and explain the reasons.

5. Farming households determined as subsidy recipients shall sign a rural dilapidated house renovation agreement with the county-level government, and funds shall be allocated in accordance with the agreement.

6. For those approved as subsidy recipients but not included in the current year's dilapidated house renovation plan due to limited quotas, they may be transferred to the next year for priority arrangement.