Resident forced to flee home slated for demolition since 2019

By 2030, 178 dilapidated residential buildings are scheduled for demolition in Yekaterinburg. The program «Improving Housing Conditions for Certain Categories of Citizens» has been in effect since 2021, but the relocation and demolition process is moving rather slowly.

In recent years, the process has seen some movement as unsafe buildings have been included in a renovation program, but only those located in areas potentially attractive to developers. The more remote the district, the longer its residents have to wait.

After the publication of an updated list of houses slated for demolition, a Yekaterinburg resident named Maria contacted the E1.RU editorial office. She and her family lived in the Shabrovsky settlement (Yekaterinburg), in a house at 29 Lenina Street. The building was declared unsafe and subject to demolition as far back as November 2019, but it still stands today.

«Our house is already part of its third such program, yet they still can»t manage to relocate the residents and demolish it. You should have seen our living conditions; we were simply forced to flee from there into rented accommodation. All they offer is moving into the temporary housing stock, into dormitories in the Uralmash district. So we live like this: the administration declares such a large number of houses for relocation, claiming they are doing an excellent job, yet we are still forced to live in conditions with a stove in a wooden house,« Maria complained.

Maria lived with her sister and mother in a three-room apartment, but everyone had to move out into rented accommodation. Maria herself moved to the city, while her relatives remained in the settlement.

«I left in 2022, my sister in 2023, and my mother at the end of 2024. On top of all this, my sister has two young children, and my husband is a participant in the special military operation, yet the administration doesn»t take any of this into account. We have appealed to all possible government bodies but are still waiting for relocation to this day,« Maria shared.

The young woman showed what the house looks like now, where only one family still lives. The condition is truly deplorable.

«Currently, only one family lives in the house. I should also note immediately that our water pipes run »from apartment to apartment.« Accordingly, if the neighbors don»t live there and don«t heat their stoves, the house gets cold, the pipes freeze, and the remaining residents have no water,» Maria added.

The situation inside the apartments is even worse: everything is frozen, walls are collapsing, and wallpaper is peeling off.

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