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    FAMILIES IN GYUMRI FORCED TO LEAVE THEIR COTTAGES, SAYS NGO

    Tert.am
    03.02.11

    Shirak Centre, a local NGO, has release a statement in which it says
    that the Gyumri Municipality issued a written warning that those
    residents who were provided with newly-built apartments in Gyumri's
    Mush-2 district in 2010 will from February 28 have to leave their
    temporary cottages.

    Otherwise, the Municipality warned, those temporary cottages will be
    dismantled by the workers of the Municipality.

    Hundreds of families are still living in temporary cottages in Shirak
    region, following the 1988 devastating earthquake that claimed more
    than 20,000 lives in the north-western part of Armenia.

    "This statement has in the true meaning of the word kicked up a fuss
    especially among those homeless families that have six or more members
    but have received a one or two-room flat," read the statement.

    Further, it said that some of these families used to live in two
    or three temporary cottages and are now going to hand over only one
    of them.

    The problem is, the NGO explained, that 23 years now after the
    earthquake, most of those homeless families have grown which is
    causing serious problems as long as housing is concerned.

    Some of these families have from six to 12 members now and have to
    live in flats that are very small for them.

    The NGO also said that dozens of these multi-member families are asking
    them to interfere with the Gyumri Municipality so that it will allow
    them to keep at least some part of their temporary cottages.

    "In that case, some part of the multi-member families will move to
    the new flats, while the rest will continue living in the temporary
    cottages," the statement read.




    From: A. Papazian
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