Up to CZK 900 million will be available from the State Fund for Investment Support to finance affordable housing projects. The government of Petra Fiala decided to release the necessary amount to cover the applications received at a meeting on Wednesday 26 February 2025. It also approved the intention to establish and operate another air ambulance base in the Czech Republic, the eleventh, which would provide its services to the still insufficiently covered area of the Karlovy Vary Region.
To solve a long-standing problem with availability of housing is one of the points of the programme declaration of the government of Petro Fiala. "We are taking systematic steps to improve the housing situation in the Czech Republic so that people have a place to live. It is certainly good news that in recent years an average of almost 40 000 flats have been built per year. Before 2020, the maximum was 36 000 flats or even less. So there is a significant shift, and more apartments will certainly help to improve the situation. But it is not enough. At the beginning of February, we reported on the Affordable Rental Housing programme, which is in great demand. Let me remind you that the aim of the programme is to kick-start the construction of affordable rental housing for young families, for example, or for professions that are needed locally, such as nurses or teachers." stated Prime Minister Fiala.
The subsidy and loan programme of the State Investment Support Fund to support affordable rental housing has CZK SEVEN billion at its disposal, of which CZK 4.5 billion is earmarked for the provision of favourable loans and CZK 2.5 billion for subsidies. The up to CZK 900 million released will enable the State Investment Promotion Fund to meet this year's commitments. It will thus disburse funds in the form of loans for specific projects during the year. "The goal is to have approximately 2,000 new apartments under contract by mid-2026 to help kick-start construction," the Prime Minister noted.
The government also approved the intention of the Ministry of Health to establish a new air rescue service station in the Karlovy Vary Region. Air ambulance services in the region are still provided by bases in the Ústí nad Labem and Pilsen regions, but they are unable to reach most of the region within the required twenty-minute limit. The Karlovy Vary Region has been striving for a long time to establish its own base to solve this problem and to ensure that patients in a critical condition can be quickly transported to appropriate medical facilities, and will pay for its construction at the Karlovy Vary airport. The operator will be a private company that will emerge from a public tender. The state will then finance the operation, as is the case with the current bases. Ten air ambulance bases are still operating in the Czech Republic - in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Hradec Králové, Plzeň, Olomouc, Jihlava, České Budějovice, Ústí nad Labem and Liberec.
The government also addressed construction of a Holocaust memorial in the Prague-Bubny railway stationwhere transports of Czech Jews left for Terezín and the concentration and extermination camps during the Nazi occupation. It approved the transfer, free of charge, of the land on which the Prague-Bubny railway station building is located and the railway superstructure located on part of the land from the Railway Administration to the Bubny Centre for Memory and Dialogue, a contributory organisation of the Ministry of Culture, which replaced the original Memorial of Silence. The reconstructed railway station building will become the new headquarters of this cultural and educational institution, whose mission is to preserve the memory of the victims of the Shoah and to prepare cultural and educational activities commemorating the horrors of the Holocaust, but also encouraging tolerance and respect between people. More in press release of the Ministry of Culture.
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