Court in Sochi obliges Mayoralty to provide housing to needy family

The Tsentralny District Court Sochi has obliged the city administration to provide comfortable housing to the family of 12 persons, now living in a house, which can collapse any time. A source from the Mayoralty said that Sochi has no vacant municipal housing; and the court decision will be appealed against. Court marshals are pessimistic about the chances of families off the waiting list to receive housing, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The court hearing on the suit lodged for the family of Dzyuba-Belyanchikov-Sukharev of 12 people, having babies, took place on June 4 and was chaired by Judge Valery Sluka. Their two-room flat No. 3 at 129 Izmailovskaya Street without amenities was recognized as an emergency and unfit for living by resolution of the Mayor of Sochi No. 148-p of March 23, 2010. The resolution stated that the family should be immediately, off the waiting list, provided with comfortable housing. However, during the three years it was not done.

Irina Dovgal, who represented the Mayoralty, objected to the official prosecutor's suit, claiming that "the list of off the waiting list families living in houses, which are under threat of collapse in Sochi, includes other 20 families, which have no other comfortable housing".

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the City Prosecutor's Office that should the court ruling be upheld, an enforcement proceeding will be initiated, under which court marshals will oblige the Mayor to provide the needy family some other not life-threatening housing.