Back in September, the Russian occupiers were forced to admit a halving of sales in the “real estate market” compared to 2021. At the same time, despite the collapse in demand, prices for “housing stock” do not decrease, but continue to grow.
This, among other things, makes it impossible to implement on the peninsula the so-called occupiers’ “housing certificates”, which they previously tried to distribute to “refugees” from the Kherson region in exchange for “obtaining a Russian passport”.
Since the number of such applicants turned out to be minimal, the occupiers are now declaring that allegedly “Ukrainian documents are enough” to receive a “housing certificate”. But at the same time, it is obvious that for the amount of this “certificate” it is impossible to get housing not only in the occupied Crimea, but also in Russian regions, with the exception of depressive ones.
At the same time, figures playing the role of “pocket opposition” for the occupiers did not forget to promote themselves on the subject of a rise in prices. For example, the fake “communist leader” Bondarenko said that the distribution of such “certificates” to the residents of Kherson “would cause disappointment among the inhabitants of the peninsula”, who were left without housing and any prospects for obtaining it during the years of occupation.
Characteristically, Bondarenko acknowledged the general high cost in the Crimea, and in addition to the “real estate market”, cynically stating that the plundering of the south of mainland Ukraine in 2022 led to a slowdown in price growth, but that “it’s not worth hoping for the Kherson region from now on.”
