
The head of the construction complex and vice-mayor of Moscow Marat Khusnullin in an interview with Kommersant revealed some details of the prepaid demolition program for the remaining Khrushchevs in Moscow. In particular, he noted that the potential of the program is almost eight thousand houses, the official lists of which are planned to be published in the fall.
Vice-mayor assured that the city administration intends to create an understandable and transparent mechanism for taking into account public opinion, promising that only those quarters, whose residents will support it, will include the renovation program.
Khusnullina was asked to comment on how the authorities would go in that situation, if one half of the inhabitants of a particular house express their way for demolition, the other half against. The official emphasized that we are not talking about the demolition of any individual houses, but about the quarterly resettlement, that is, the vote will also be quarterly.
“If there are parity of voting results, then these houses will not be demolished,” said the vice mayor. At the same time, according to him, those people who vote against can not use the program.
He also noted that if it comes from houses that will be recognized as emergency, they will be resettled in any case.
As reported, the bill entered into the State Duma on the resettlement of residents of old apartment buildings says that the Moscow City Hall should establish "the procedure, cases and forms of identifying and taking into account the opinion of the population on the implementation of the program." In response, the experts expressed fear that the capital's officials would reserve the right to hold public hearings or come up with some kind of “form” of accounting for the opinion of residents, and not in all “cases”.