After waiting years for social housing, Russians are losing their place in line to veterans of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine
Anton Vaganov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA At the end of August, Dmitry Klevtsov, the deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg Housing Committee, announced that since 2019, the waiting list for subsidized housing had halved, dropping from 146,700 to 78,600 families. “The reduction in the number of families on the housing register reflects the positive changes we’ve made,” Klevtsov said. However, official reports don’t seem to align with the reality on the ground.