In Sochi, residents of dilapidated houses complain about forced resettlement into Olympic volunteers' house

In Sochi, about 30 residents of the two dilapidated houses No. 5 and No. 7 in Esaulenko Street complain about unlawful, in their opinion, resettlement to a house built for volunteers of the Olympic Games. According to the residents, they are provided with insufficient accommodation.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent talked to pensioner Boris Lavrikov, a resident of the dilapidated house No. 5. The pensioner has said that he, his wife and their five children live in two-room apartment with total area of 64 square meters. However, at present, they are offered to move to one-room apartment with area of 37.8 square meters.

"We do not understand this kind of 'resettlement', when living conditions are rather deteriorated and not improved," said their son Anatoly Lavrikov.

According to the residents of the dilapidated houses, the city administration refuses to register minors on the living space occupied by the families and thereby deliberately understates the so-called space of need, i.e. the norm for providing housing which is 18 square meters per person.

"We do not agree with that. And we will file complains to a higher court. The house appeared to become dilapidated not by our fault, but by the fault of the city administration," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Tamara Usenko, a resident of the house No. 5 in Esaulenko Street.