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Rental housing prices in Minsk have grown sevenfold in a week

Rental housing prices in Minsk have grown sevenfold in a week

Passions run high again concerning the situation with “Magistr”, a complex of rental housing.

It was built on direction of Lukashenka in the micro-district of Uruchcha in Minsk for scientific and creative intellectuals. The lists of its future dwellers were made in July, and then drawing of lots also took place. The only thing was left for flats owners, to receive keys. But the stumbling block was, the head of state was to personally issue the order for occupation, “Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus” writes.

On September 8 Lukashenka held consultations on the housing problem and promised that rental housing prices will be affordable for scientific and creative community. On September 9 at the website of the Administration of Pershamajski district a formula of the rental price was offered, and a decreasing coefficient of 0.2 was set. So the rent of a one-room flat costs Br240,000, a two-room flat – Br300,000. Artists and professors who were lucky to be put on the list, were rejoicing. But it wasn’t long.

- Yesterday I received a phone call from the payments centre. They asked me to come and sign an agreement for flat maintenance, – an actress of Kupala Theatre Hanna Khitryk says. – It has turned out that there is no decreasing coefficient at all! We looked at the website, and it was true, there was 1.0 instead of 0.2. It means that a two-room flat will cost Br2 mln, not Br300,000. As we were told by the administration of Pershamajski district, there is no decree about a decreasing coefficient for our houses. It starts to remind a kind of tragicomedy. Now I live in central Minsk and rend a house, and after deduction, I pay Br400,000 for a one-room flat. Why there is a decreasing coefficient for central Minsk, and there is no for Uruchcha? We have transferred our children to kindergartens and schools to Uskhod district, and now we do not know what to do… It is really frustrating. We had been promised one thing, and the reality is completely different.

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