Does it cost money to apply for a homestead in rural areas?

Don't. It is free to apply for homestead. Rural villagers applying for homestead without compensation, even if it is village rules and regulations, can not violate national policies, but there are homestead fees for changing the nature of land privately, homestead fees for exceeding the local average standard area, and homestead fees for illegally owning more than one house. The key lies in whether the charges have fulfilled the democratic agreed procedures. There is also a very realistic point. If the village committee decides to charge, and the charging items and standards are unified, it will be announced in front of all the villagers, even if it has not gone through the democratic consultation procedure, that is, even if it has not been discussed and decided by the villagers' meeting, it will still be implemented. If someone refuses to accept it, they can report it to the township government and ask it to investigate and handle it.

A rural villager can only own one homestead, and the area of the homestead is standard, and the maximum occupation of cultivated land shall not exceed125 _; Other land shall not exceed140 _; Conditional use of mountainous wasteland and barren slopes shall not exceed 160_. The land area of homestead is limited to: within 75 farmers with three or less people, within four farmers 100, within five farmers 1 10 or above; Farmers with 6 or more people are within 125_. If non-cultivated land is used, each file can be increased by at most15 _; Where there are conditions to use barren slopes and barren hills to build houses in mountainous areas, each file can be increased by up to 35_. The implementation of the transformation of old villages, the relocation area of downhill immigrants exceeds the land use index of more than 20_, and the land use index of one grade can be relaxed.

Homestead application conditions

(a) with the conditions of entering the home, it is really necessary to set up another house;

(two) the existing housing belongs to the old house and needs to be demolished and rebuilt;

(three) the original housing needs to be rebuilt due to the disaster;

(4) Relocation due to state and collective construction or resettlement according to policies;

(five) other circumstances stipulated by laws, regulations and rules.

Legal basis:

Land Management Law of the People's Republic of China

Article 9

State-owned land and land collectively owned by farmers can be designated to units or individuals for use according to law, and units and individuals that use land have the obligation to protect, manage and rationally use land.