Dilapidated project

The Moscow City Duma approved additional guarantees for residents of the center

It seems that the capital’s authorities hope to put an end to the long-term war between residents of the center of Moscow, who do not want to change their elite place of “registration” to the suburbs of Moscow, with officials and developers. Yesterday, deputies of the Moscow City Duma adopted an amendment to the law “On ensuring the housing rights of citizens when relocating and vacating residential premises (residential buildings) in the city of Moscow,” which promises all residents of the center living in dilapidated houses to move to new apartments in their old area. This should put an end to the abuses based on the so-called certificates of disrepair of houses - with such a document, the investor conducting construction on the site of a demolished building could not stand on ceremony with the residents, since from the point of view of the law, his obligations to the townspeople were considered fulfilled if the apartments were evicted provided in remote areas.

According to the author of this fundamental amendment, Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Perspective Development and Urban Planning, Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov, the decades-long practice of relocating residents of the Central Administrative District of the capital to Altufyevo and Bibirevo, Butovo, Zhulebino and Mitino “has given rise to many fears of the same thing in the city.” order." “Southern Butovo is the main bogeyman for the center,” the deputy explained in a conversation with a Vremya Novostei correspondent. “On the one hand, people want to leave their dilapidated huts, on the other hand, they are afraid of being evicted far from their homes.” According to Mr. Moskvin-Tarkhanov, due to the fierce resistance of Muscovites in recent years, the number of those who remained residents of the prestigious center even after moving there has been growing. “At first, those who did not radically change their area of ​​residence were 20%, then 40%, this year the number of such migrants increased to 80%, but now everyone who wants to will remain in the areas of their current residence,” the deputy assured.

The Law on the Rights of Migrants, adopted in May 2006 and aimed primarily at ensuring the rights of Muscovites from the center, has already guaranteed citizens that if their houses are demolished, they will not go somewhere to new buildings outside the Moscow Ring Road, but will remain in their familiar area. However, the only exception he provided, which allowed the authorities to urgently resettle residents from the center only “within the city limits” if the house was recognized as unsafe, became the cause of many conflicts and murmuring of Muscovites against capital officials. Therefore, legislators considered it necessary to clarify the concept of “emergency building”. It is noteworthy that both the city’s executive power, including Mayor Yuri Luzhkov himself, and the opposition agreed with this. “The law has eliminated a loophole that allowed officials to artificially attribute a building to disrepair in order to transfer it to investors for subsequent demolition and commercial construction on the liberated territory,” said Sergei Mitrokhin, head of the Yabloko-United Democrats faction, yesterday after the final approval of the amendments by the Moscow City Duma.

“Accidents occur in two cases. In force majeure circumstances, such as fire, explosion, natural disaster. And the gradual deterioration of housing, which over the years has reached an ugly state,” Mr. Moskvin-Tarkhanov explained the essence of his amendment. According to the deputy, for those awaiting relocation in the center of Moscow there are 140 dilapidated houses “force majeure are isolated cases.” And their residents are now provided with additional guarantees. The amendment allows for the resettlement of Muscovites from the center to remote areas only in the case of “urgent resettlement from residential premises damaged as a result of explosions, fires, earthquakes, uneven soil subsidence, as well as as a result of other complex geological phenomena, natural disasters, emergency situations, if they were, in accordance with the established procedure, recognized as emergency and not subject to restoration for technical reasons.”

The natural deterioration of the housing stock, according to the editor of the law, is not a basis for long-distance resettlement. At the same time, deputies do not exclude that in this case there will be many dissatisfied, since the center of the growing metropolis itself is far from equal in terms of the market value of housing. However, in their opinion, this is the maximum that can be done, and the outraged should be stopped by the new Housing Code, which imposes on citizens the obligation to independently repair dilapidated housing. “Moving from Presnya to Baumanskaya is not as scary as moving to Butovo,” says Mikhail Moskvin-Tarkhanov, “and it’s even more profitable than renovating old housing.”

Yulia KHOMCHENKO