Occupancy of Vacated Living Accommodations in Apartments

Abstract

The new housing legislation emanating from the Program of the CPSU reinforces the principle that each family shall have its own, separate apartment. This principle applies not only to the allocation of living accommodations in newly built housing and to individual apartments when they become vacant, but also to the disposition of vacated accommodations in a communal apartment. While under the previous legislation, the remaining tenants [in a communal apartment] were not as a general rule entitled to request that the vacated accommodations be assigned to them, under the new law these tenants are first in line for these accommodations. Only in the absence of the necessary conditions or if there are no claimants for the vacated premises shall they be allocated according to the general procedure. The application of these rules will facilitate the conversion of communal apartments into separate apartments or else will reduce the number of tenants living in a communal apartment. And this is nothing other than one means by which the principle of a separate apartment for each family is to be realized.