Almost a million Ukrainian families and separate citizens require improving housing conditions. This was informed by Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Koshulynskyi on Wednesday, opening parliamentary hearings entitled “On securing implementation of housing rights of dormitory residents: problems and solutions”.
Ruslan Koshulynskyi claimed provision of citizens with housing is one of the most pressing problems of the society, adding that Ukraine inherited it from the Soviet Union. In his words, almost two million Ukrainian families and separate citizens required improving housing conditions in 1991.
Today, claimed the Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, a considerable amount of those requiring better housing conditions are dormitory residents – over 450 thousand Ukrainian citizens.
Ruslan Koshulynskyi claimed that not only quantity but also main characteristics of dormitories as immovable property objects, form of their property, conditions of their maintenance and use depend on the region.
Thus, according to him, 13 Kyiv dormitories are in a satisfactory technical condition, 50 – in non-satisfactory. In Donetsk Oblast it is on the contrary: 61 dormitories are in a satisfactory technical condition, 24 – in non-satisfactory, in Odesa Oblast these figures are almost equal – 32 and 36 dormitories respectively.
Ruslan Koshulynskyi informed that there are no state owned dormitories in Ternopil Oblast, and there are only 90 such dormitories in Odesa Oblast. 1 dormitory in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is privately owned, 66 – in Kyiv.
Deputy Chairman of the Parliament claimed that the Verkhovna Rada adopted legislative acts aimed at regulating problems, among which laws “On securing implementation of housing rights of dormitory residents”, “On amendments to legislative acts of Ukraine re improving legal regulation of securing implementation of housing rights of dormitory residents”, and “On the national target programme of transferring dormitories into the ownership of local communities for 2012-2015”.
Ruslan Koshulynskyi called participants of the hearings to make suggestions regarding amendments to current legislation that would improve the situation in this sphere.