Footnote. Title as amended by Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 7 July 2006 №
182 (for method of enforcement, see Article 2).
Article 67. Registration of persons in need of housing and provision of housing from the
housing stock of state institutions and state enterprises
1. State institutions and state enterprises shall maintain lists of persons in need of housing
and publish on their Internet resources the lists of persons registered as needing housing and
lists of persons who have received housing from the housing stock of state institutions and
state enterprises over the past twenty-four months, indicating the date of their registration as
needing housing.
The requirements to publish on their Internet resources lists of persons registered as
needing housing and lists of persons who have received housing from the housing fund of
state institutions shall not apply to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, other
troops and military formations, law enforcement agencies, special public authorities, and civil
defence agencies.
Housing provided from the state housing fund, excluding housing rented from the private
housing fund to civil servants, employees of budgetary organisations, military personnel,
cosmonaut candidates, cosmonauts, employees of law enforcement agencies, special public
authorities, civil defence agencies, as well as persons holding elected public office shall be
equated to service housing.
2. Dwellings from the housing stock of state institutions shall be provided for use by the
employees of these institutions who need housing in a given locality, with the exception of
cases provided for in paragraphs 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this article.
Dwellings from the housing stock of state institutions created for the purpose of
implementing active measures to promote employment shall be provided to citizens of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, kandas, participating in active measures to promote employment, in
accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on social welfare.
A mandatory condition for the provision of housing from the housing stock of state
institutions created for the purpose of implementing active measures to promote employment
to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, kandas participating in active measures to promote
employment, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on social
welfare, is the absence of housing on the ownership right at the new place of residence,
including members of their families.
The housing provided by state institutions is service housing.
3. Dwellings from the housing stock of state enterprises are provided for use by
employees of these enterprises and shall be equated to service housing.
4. Dwellings from the housing stock of state institutions shall be provided for use to the
state bodies’ civil servants in need of housing in a given locality, supporting the activities of
the President, the Chambers of Parliament, the Prime Minister and the Government of the
Republic of Kazakhstan and not having the right to operational management of separate
property, as well as other persons determined by the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
5. Service housing from the departmental housing stock shall be provided for use by civil
servants in need of housing in a given locality, appointed to a position on a rotational basis,
for the period of performance of their official duties.
6. Service housing belonging to the housing stock of state institutions of national security
and internal affairs bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan, civil defence bodies in this
settlement, not subject to privatisation, shall be provided for the period of service (
employment) to employees (workers) who are recognised as needing housing and who are
members of the national security and internal affairs agencies of the Republic of Kazakhstan,
civil defence agencies, etc.
7. Housing from the housing stock of the municipal state institution in the sphere of
accounting and maintenance of the housing stock of the capital shall be provided for use by
civil servants and budgetary employees in need of housing in a given locality.
Footnote. Article 67 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
22.11.2024 № 138-VIII (effective six months after the date of its first official publication); as
amended by Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 196-VIII of 24.06.2025 (shall take effect
on 30.06.2025); № 203-VIII of 30.06.2025 (shall enter into force on 01.07.2025).

1. Foreign legal entities and foreign persons shall, in housing operations in the Republic
of Kazakhstan hear equal rights and obligations to legal entities and citizens of the Republic
of Kazakhstan, unless Kazakh legislative acts establish otherwise.
2. Stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan shall bear equal
housing relation rights and obligations to citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

1. Adult citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, kandas shall be recognized as needing
housing if:
1) they do not have owned housing on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan within
the last five years at the time of registration as in need of housing in the unified republican
electronic database and the electronic database "Center for Housing Provision";
2) they do not have owned housing in a given locality when registering as in need of
housing and at the time of provision of housing from the housing stock of the state institution;
3) they do not have a home on the ownership right in the territory of the Republic of
Kazakhstan when registering as needing housing and at the time of provision of housing from
the housing stock of the state enterprise;
4) their only home is recognized as an emergency dwelling in accordance with the
procedure stipulated by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the registration of
which is carried out at the location of this home by local executive bodies.
2. The requirement to reach the age of majority does not apply to orphans, children
without parental care, under twenty-nine years old, or those who lost their parents before
reaching the age of majority. When such persons are called up for military service, the age
shall be extended for the duration of their compulsory military service.
3. Family members of a tenant (sub-tenant) who has received housing from the communal
housing stock cannot be recognized as needing housing from the communal housing stock on
the same grounds as the tenant (sub-tenant) of the housing.
4. Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, whose only dwelling is recognized to be in
emergency condition in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan, upon receiving housing from the communal housing stock shall
transfer the emergency dwelling they own into communal ownership in accordance with the
civil legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 69 is envisaged in the wording of the Law of the Republic of
Kazakhstan dated 22.11.2024 № 138-VIII (effective six months after the date of its first
official publication).

Footnote. Title of Article 68 as amended by Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
22.07.2011 № 479-IV (enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after first official
publication).
Vulnerable population groups include:
1) veterans of the Great Patriotic War;
1-1) veterans equated in benefits to veterans of the Great Patriotic War;
1-2) veterans of combat operations on the territory of other states;
2) persons with the first and second disability groups;
3) families with or raising children with disabilities;
4) persons with severe forms of certain chronic diseases included in the list of diseases
confirmed by the authorized healthcare body;
5) retirement pensioners;
6) orphans and children without a custody of parents aged under twenty-nine years who
lost parents before coming age. When these persons are called to military service, the age
shall be extended for the term of performance of active military duty;
7) oralmans;
8) persons who lost their dwelling place due to ecological, natural or technical disasters or
emergencies;
9) mothers with many children, awarded with necklaces "Altyn alka", "Kumis alka" or
previously received the title "Mother-Heroine", as well as awarded with the orders of "
Maternal Glory" of I and II degrees, large families;
10) families of persons who died (were killed) while fulfilling state or public duties or
military service, preparing for or carrying out space travel, saving human life or protecting
law and order;
11) incomplete families;
12) widows (widowers) who have dependent minor children and children studying under
general education or professional programs in organizations of general secondary, technical
and professional, post-secondary education, higher, postgraduate education on a full-time
basis, but not more than until reaching the age of twenty-three.
Footnote. Article 68 as amended by Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
06.07.2007 № 276; 08.06.2009 № 163-IV; 29.05.2010 № 283-IV (for method of enforcement
see Article 2); 22.07.2011 № 479-IV (enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after first
official publication); and 06.01.2012 № 529-IV (enforced upon expiry of twenty-one calendar
days after first official publication); dated 06.05.2019 № 251-VI (shall be enforced upon
expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication); dated 06.05.2020 № 323-VI (
effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated 24.11.2021 №
75-VII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication); dated
27.06.2022 № 129-VII (shall be enforced ten calendar days after the date of its first official
publication); dated 22.11.2024 № 138-VIII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its
first official publication).

A citizen (together with spouse and minor children) shall have the right to only one
dwelling place in this inhabited locality from state housing stock or a dwelling place leased by
a local executive body in private housing stock, with the exception of cases in which each
spouse had such dwelling place before marrying.
Footnote. Article 70 as amended by Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 7 July 2006
№ 182 (for method of enforcement, see Article 2).
Footnote. The title of Chapter 10 is excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan
dated 22.11.2024 № 138-VIII (effective six months after the date of its first official
publication).

Upon termination of the lease contract, the sublease contract terminates at the same time.
Subtenants and temporary residents, upon termination of the lease contract shall be subject to
dispossession without providing another dwelling.
Footnote. Article 27 as amended by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated
26.12.2019 № 284-VІ (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first
official publication).