«Out of 36 damaged apartments, 23 are intact» — the residents of the destroyed building on Pohranychna believe that the DHCS is misleading them and do not agree to the dismantling

In Mykolaiv, the residents of the building at 43 Pohranychna Street, where two entrances have been destroyed, do not give permission to dismantle the building. They argue for this position by the fact that most of the apartments in the building, which are currently unfit for living, have survived.

This is stated in the article NikVesti «The problem of recovery: how Mykolaiv residents live, whose homes were destroyed by Russia.»

Residents believe that the Department of Housing and Communal Services of Mykolaiv is misleading people, appealing with the conclusion of the technical report, which confirms the need to dismantle the building.

According to the conclusion of the technical report, which was carried out by the Department of Housing and Communal Services, the building is subject to demolition. However, residents claim that out of 36 uninhabitable apartments, 23 are intact. They believe that the authorities are not interested in restoring the house, and use the demolition to obtain cheap building materials.

«Based on the decisions of the executive committee of Mykolaiv, it was indicated that emergency structures should be removed from the 3rd and 4th entrances, the destroyed apartments should be dismantled by the corresponding numbers, and the third and fifth floors should be cleaned. We wrote an appeal at the end of May to the mayor with a request to restore the building, because most of it is intact. Out of 36 apartments that are not suitable for living, 23 apartments are intact. It turns out that while we need housing in such a dire situation, they put a cross on the house and let people beg? What do they need to dismantle the house to see the foundation? And you can't go down to the basement for this, look at the basement? Not a single ceiling above the basement has cracked. They just need cheap building material. Whole slabs and blocks can be sawn,» says Tetiana Honcharova, a resident of the building.

They want to solve the situation with refusals in the DHCS by issuing housing certificates. The relevant decision will be made by the city council's commission for consideration of issues regarding the provision of compensation for destroyed property, says deputy director of the DHCS Ihor Nabatov.

«The procedure is as follows: first they submitted an application, it was approved, they received a residential certificate, after that they canceled the ownership of the previous real estate object and exercised their right to receive the real estate object within the framework of the residential certificate. Therefore, the number of owners (apartments in destroyed buildings, note) is gradually decreasing. Accordingly, we must obtain the consent (for dismantling, note) of the owners, and if at some point there are zero, then there are no owners as such and we calmly exercise our powers,» said Ihor Nabatov.

However, residents believe that they are being misled by issuing certificates.

«If during the first meetings with the DHCS only the certificates were announced, then they began to pressure, and some people thought about it and said that it is better to take the certificates. Before that, almost 5 owners were categorically against the certificates. The city leadership should have minimized the tragedy that happened, went to a meeting with the people on the issue of restoration, and not lured them with certificates and pitted them against each other,» adds the resident of Pohranychna Street, 43.

Earlier, the Department of Housing and Communal Services of Mykolaiv stated that the residents of dilapidated buildings at 54 Krylova Street and 43 Pohranychna Street, in case of unwillingness to give consent to dismantling, may lose any chance for further restoration.

The apartment owners' refusal to demolish was reported back in mid-October. Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych explained that the fear of the locals is caused by the fact that their land plots may become the object of construction of estates.