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The Ministry of Regional Development, Construction and Housing should carry out continuous and effective work to provide citizens with affordable housing, President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych has said.

According to the presidential press service, Yanukovych set this task at a meeting with ministry head Anatoliy Blyzniuk in Crimea.

"The president set the task [of] settling the issue of providing disabled people and young families with affordable housing. This is the system that has to work now, and we can’t take any breaks here," the minister said after meeting with the president.