New housing in 2009, not much reduced, assures Dvorkovich

Next year, water housing may be reduced, but did not fall below the rate that existed prior to the national project "Housing". According to reporters Wednesday the president's aide Arkady Dvorkovich, new housing in 2009 will remain in the range of indicators, which preceded the beginning of the projects' implementation. In turn, Vice Premier Alexander Zhukov said that now it is difficult to make predictions about the housing market in 2011-2012. He believes that by the time the crisis is still to go on the decline, and the volumes of housing construction, for which we had hoped for, first, begin to increase, and by increasing demand, and by extension the national project, and the new program "Housing", which will be developed. "