Residents of occupied Mariupol complain about the allocation of someone else's or unfinished housing
Kyiv • UNN
In occupied Mariupol, residents are being offered unfinished housing or apartments belonging to legal owners. Refusing such options carries the risk of losing one's place in the queue.
In occupied Mariupol, residents who lost their homes during the hostilities report problems with receiving promised apartments. According to ASTRA, people are being offered to move into buildings where renovations are still incomplete, or into apartments that have legal owners, UNN reports.
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Some residents say that after years of waiting, they receive housing in other districts of the city or in buildings with indefinite restoration timelines. According to them, refusing an offered apartment can lead to being moved to the end of the queue, and a second refusal results in the housing being replaced by monetary compensation.
Owners find out about the transfer of their apartments to other people
Local residents also report cases where apartments considered "ownerless" by the authorities actually have owners. In one such case, potential new residents came to inspect the apartment of a woman who continues to live in Mariupol and is processing inheritance documents.
In 2025, Putin signed a law allowing housing recognized as "ownerless" in the occupied territories to be transferred to state ownership. According to ASTRA, such apartments have already begun to be used to house people who lost their homes, while the promised compensatory housing, according to local residents, is still in short supply.