Most residents of Soviet-era low-rise apartment blocks set to be demolished in Moscow over the next 10-15 years support the city’s so-called renovation program, the capital’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin said.
"The owners of 44% of apartments in the buildings put on the demolition list have already cast their votes and 90% of residents support the program. We have several dozen buildings whose residents voted against it," Sobyanin said.
He said an apartment building can be excluded from the renovation program if the majority (two-thirds) of property owners vote against resettlement. "Our task is to turn these residential blocks into comfortable areas for living and working," TASS cited him as saying.
The residents of the demolished low-rise housing units will be offered to move into new apartment blocks. The total scale of the renovation program will be clear once the voting is wrapped up in mid-summer. According to preliminary estimates, the capital is set to renovate over 25 million square meters of real estate, or ten percent of its housing projects, within the next 10-15 years.
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