How a family is evicted due to debt

Apartment No. 4 at 76 Oktyabrya Avenue is well-known throughout the district. The front door is unlocked; all kinds of exiles can spend the night here. One can only guess in what currency the hospitality of the hosts is evaluated. One thing is certain: they never had money to pay for water and electricity. By the end of last year, the principal debt, together with fines, had increased to 25 million rubles. The utility workers were tired of being “stuck in the lurch” and filed a lawsuit for eviction.

By decision of the Soviet District Court, officers entered the awful apartment last Friday. Law enforcement officers came to describe the property, REU utility workers came to deliver it to a small family home on Vladimirov Street, and a lawyer came to monitor the progress of the court’s decision. In case the owners started to make a scene, the local police arrived. Everyone wanted to find the protagonist, 42-year-old Alla, at home, but she had to go out in a hurry.

Svetlana Antonova, head of the legal department of KZhREUP “Sovetskoe”, spoke about the history of the debt:

— Unemployed Alla became an employer of the state “three rubles” in 2000. Her parents received the apartment during its construction. It occupies an area of ​​64.59 square kilometers. The debtor’s brother and her two children are registered there. Utility debts have been accumulating since July 2001. Among the benefits of civilization, the apartment has only sewerage. Everything else was shut down long ago for nonpayment. The younger brother was born in 1968. The utility service does not know where he works. Like Alla, he drinks. The eldest son is imprisoned in Zhodino prison. The youngest child is officially recognized as an orphan. The guy graduated from college, found a job and was given a dormitory in the company. He is on the waiting list for social housing and does not want to meet his unfortunate relatives.

Each was warned several times that they might be evicted, but the three did not even attempt to eliminate the debt. Of the four court hearings, the defendant and her brother attended only one. When the judge asked them why they did not pay the debt, the brother answered truthfully: “We were blown away!”

The inventory took about three hours. The bailiff tried not to miss any detail:

– TV? Yes, just for aesthetics, the tube is broken. So let’s write it down…

– What to do with them? – asked a utility worker, noticing two Siamese cats under the couch. — Should they be included in the inventory?

We decided not to rush the animals. Towards the end of the “inventory,” a man appeared in the apartment and introduced himself as Ala’s good friend. He called Kesha and Manya, and they came into his arms.

— $40, by the way ——The stranger said meaningfully, and then took the cat away.

The conditions for the small family are more modest: a one-room apartment with an area of ​​11 sq. m. New wallpaper has been glued, some pipes are new. It seems that Alla and her family have to get used to this luxury. You also have to make friends with your roommates.

– The criteria for deterioration of housing conditions are set out in section 86, part 1, of the Housing Act, — Svetlana Antonova mentioned the legislative framework. — If tenants of a dwelling in the state housing stock and family members who have lived with them for more than six months without justifiable reasons do not pay for housing and communal services and the use of the dwelling, they will be evicted in court and provided with another place of smaller size and lower quality of consumption.

The lawyer assured that the utility workers had been trying to find common ground with the tenants over the years. They offered them a job as a housing manager so that money could be deducted from their wages to pay off the debt. But neither the mistress nor her brother saw the need to listen.

Outsiders are forbidden from entering the dilapidated apartment. Soon it will be cleared of debris, disinfected, repaired and made available to the “social class” in need.

Allah never showed up. She only received the keys to her new home yesterday. The REU has not asked the 42-year-old woman where she spends the night for nearly a week. Utility workers are not the moral police. But they warn: if this happens again, living conditions will deteriorate again.

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