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An estimated 200 people in Ulaanbaatar, are facing homelessness due to stalled redevelopment plans. The apartments have become uninhabitable as heating pipes, windows and doors have been removed, and rubbish has been dumped inside the building.

These people, including people with disabilities, elderly and families with young children need emergency, alternative and adequate accommodation.

Between February and April 2015, at least 28 households moved out of building #3 in the 10th unit (khoroo) of Sukhbaatar district in Ulaanbaatar. Private developers had promised residents a new apartment in the building that would be redeveloped.

The new building would replace the existing building which local authorities have classified as structurally unsound. Some residents who accepted this offer told Amnesty International the developers asked them to remove windows, doors and heating pipes in an attempt to get others to also move out and to prove their own intention to leave.

After the building was damaged, it was further vandalized for pipes and materials and rubbish was dumped in the building by passers-by.

Amnesty International researchers visited the building in March 2016 and met some of its residents. The building is now uninhabitable for those who did not move out. Those who agreed to move out were given rent money for one year. However, almost a year later, construction of the new building has not begun and those who had moved out face the choice of moving back to their damaged apartments in building #3 or become homeless.

Of the households which did not move out - which included a disabled man and families with young children including a three month old baby - five had nowhere else to go during the winter. At least 12 households which did not accept the rent money moved out because the conditions were intolerable but are planning to move back in April once the weather is warmer.

Residents have appealed to the Mongolian authorities, to request that the heating be reconnected and to repair the building but no effective measures have been taken. Any progress in finding a longer-term housing solution for residents has stalled while residents seek to have the company’s activities on their building suspended in the administrative court.

Urging Mongolian authorities to:

- Provide emergency, alternative and adequate housing for all residents of building #3 in the 10th khoroo of Sukhbaatar district in Ulaanbaatar.

- Guarantee that acceptance of temporary alternative housing will not result in residents forfeiting their rights to their homes in building 3

- Ensure that nobody is left homeless or vulnerable to other human rights violations as a result of a development-based eviction

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