After the collapse of emergency dormitories in Russia, a shortage of maneuverable funds was discovered.
After the collapse on January 27 of a five-story dormitory in Rostov-on-Don, where only by a miracle none of the residents died in a building turned into a pile of bricks, a similar story happened in the village of Peresvet in the Moscow region. There, the emergency dormitory was covered with large cracks and the residents were urgently relocated to the local House of Culture. Why go to the House of Culture and how long do people live in an unsuitable building? And no one knows! Because suddenly it turned out that in the Moscow region, the leader in the number of housing under construction and put into operation in the country, the housing of the maneuverable fund has run out.
What is a maneuverable fund? In case someone doesn’t know: these are apartments owned by the municipality, which are temporarily (until they receive permanent housing) inhabited by fire victims or residents of collapsed buildings or residents of houses, living in which for various reasons (gas explosion, terrorist attack, flood or something else) is unsafe. That is, there must be such a stock of apartments in case of an emergency. But he is not in Sergiev Posad district, where the ill-fated dormitory is being destroyed! Although the Housing Code of the Russian Federation obliges local authorities to provide temporary housing to everyone who, for some reason, was left without a roof over their heads.
A similar situation is observed in many other regions of Russia. And where there are still a certain number of apartments of the maneuverable fund, this housing is in such a state that even residents of emergency houses refuse to move into it. The number and condition of dilapidated and dilapidated housing in Russia is such that we may soon receive the same wave of catastrophes with the collapse of buildings, which we observed this winter with bursting pipes and freezing houses. Houses have simply exhausted their safety margin and are starting to collapse like houses of cards. “We have eaten through the Soviet reserve capacity,” Konstantin Krokhin, chairman of the Union of Housing Organizations, commented on this in the media and predicted an “epidemic” of destruction of old buildings in the near future.
After the destruction of a dormitory in Rostov-on-Don shown on television, residents of a multi-storey building on Kievskaya Street, 5, in Saratov recorded and distributed their cry of despair – an appeal to Vladimir Putin – on social networks. Their emergency house was supposed to be resettled in 2020, but officials did not find apartments for them. Now they promise to settle in 2025. However, people are not sure that they will be able to survive until that time in a crumbling building.
“We want to ask our president for help so that we can be resettled as soon as possible, our terrible house, which has already lost its foundation, in which cracks appeared… Plus, there are a lot of communal accidents in this house, after which not only the house suffers, but also the residents,” complains one of the residents of the collapsing house. What are the officials waiting for? Human casualties?
In many municipalities, there is no money to build or buy housing for a maneuverable fund. And Russian officials traditionally do not like to upset their superiors by reporting such sad facts. But there is no way out. Without the help of the state and the mass construction of housing for a maneuverable fund, as well as without accelerating the resettlement program from dilapidated and dilapidated housing, this problem will not be solved.
What should I do first of all, right now, to avoid human casualties in the collapse of the next dorms? Konstantin Krokhin, Chairman of the Union of Housing Organizations, is confident that an honest inventory of the condition of emergency houses is needed. It is necessary to develop a system of accident rates and first of all settle buildings that may collapse tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. The Chairman of the Union of Housing Organizations also proposes to create a single digital system in which data on the condition of each house will be openly published. And after all, after the liquidation of the BTI, no one is monitoring the accident rate of houses at all now.
The offers are good, but again it all comes down to the question: where to settle people? There is a catastrophic shortage of housing in Russia!
Yana Polyanskaya.
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