# Outline of Procedures for Clearing Sites of Temporary Shelters ("Domics")

# Site-Based Beneficiary Selection

# Housing Certificate Pilot Project, Gyumri

1.  The area of the pilot project is selected based on established
    criteria by the Program Manager and agreed upon by USAID, The GoA,
    and the Gyumri Administration. It contains up to 150 *eligible*
    households living in temporary dwellings. At the same time, areas
    for potential domic relocation are determined and concept for
    *compensation for ineligible domics* is developed. "Bridge housing"
    (see 1998 *Strategy*) for category III building dwellers is
    mobilized. The pilot site is divided into a number of sub-sites.

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2.  Households are offered certificates in groups: every month,
    eligible, "would-be" eligible and ineligible households from groups
    on the site are invited for initial briefings starting from a
    predetermined boundary. Justification: a) if the issue of domic
    removal arises for groups during the same period of time - it is
    easier to remove domics in clusters as opposed to isolated
    domics; b) there will be less questions on why my neighbor received
    a certificate and I did not c) no implicit relations with the
    waiting list mechanism and clear implications about future site
    development (all occupants can understand the need to relocate
    because the site is being cleared for future development).

3.  Final checking of documents: for eligible households, the value of
    the offered certificate is determined based on the amount of funds
    required to purchase an average apartment in the home city (Gyumri
    in this case) of the size (in rooms) according to the following
    policy: a) ***Standard Compensation***: Certificate value is based
    on providing the household with what it lost in the 1988 Earthquake
    (an apartment size measured in numbers of rooms). If the family size
    (measured in registered household members (not necessarily
    physically present in Armenia) today warrants a smaller apartment
    (according to national norms/Gov. Decision \# 432), then the
    household will receive a smaller apartment (in number of rooms). In
    most cases, however, the family will receive the apartment size (1,
    2, 3, 4, etc.) which was lost. Again, this will be based on
    registered household members, whether they are in Armenia or not.
    ***Potential Upgrade***: If the number of registered members who are
    physically present (right before the Certificate is issued, at the
    time the Contract is signed at the Notary between your household and
    the Municipality) to warrant a larger size apartment than was lost
    in the Earthquake, you may be upgraded up to one (1) additional
    room.

4.  The Program Manager and the local administration (Gyumri) agree upon
    the final decision on eligibility of households for the program.

5\. Procedures for those households which do NOT receive a housing
certificate:

+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| **Category**             | **Action**               | **Iss          |
|                          |                          | ues/Comments** |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 1.*Eligible* households, | Households sign          | What to do if  |
| *not* from an on-site    | *statement of refusal*   | domic is       |
| damaged building that    | to participate in HC     | physically     |
| [decline]{.underline} an | program and receive      | impossible to  |
| HC. (Their former        | notification that during | remove without |
| residence was in a       | the next 6 months it may | destroying it? |
| building that either was | be required to relocate  |                |
| on-site and was          | its domic to a site      | Must keep the  |
| completely destroyed by  | assigned by the          | image of       |
| the EQ (or demolished    | municipality at          | *voluntary*    |
| after the EQ) OR their   | municipality's expense   | character of   |
| former building is on    | *or* will be provided    | HPC program so |
| another site).           | similar domic on a       | care to be     |
|                          | different site *or*      | taken with     |
|                          | other temporary shelter  | this category. |
|                          | in municipal facilities  |                |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 2\. *Eligible*           | Households sign          | Probably       |
| households from on-site  | statement of refusal to  | should not     |
| building waiting list (  | participate in HC        | remove these   |
| damaged building,        | program and notification | households     |
| programmed for           | that during next 6       | even if their  |
| reinforcement ) which    | months it *may* be       | building is    |
| [decline]{.underline}    | obliged to give up his   | not reinforced |
| HC.                      | domic for municipality   | in 2000. Try   |
|                          | and be moved to "bridge  | to include     |
|                          | housing" provided by     | their          |
|                          | municipality until their | buildings into |
|                          | building is reinforced.  | 2001           |
|                          |                          | reinforcement  |
|                          |                          | program.       |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 3\. *Former eligible*    | 3a. Household receives   | No             |
| households or their      | notification that during | compensation   |
| extended families who    | the next 6 months it may | is offered to  |
| have *already received*  | be required to relocate  | domic owners   |
| housing from the         | its domic to a site      | so not to      |
| state/donor as           | assigned by              | encourage the  |
| compensation but did not | municipality, with       | domic market.  |
| move in their entirety   | assistance from          |                |
| (part of the family      | municipality *or* will   |                |
| remains in the domic)    | be provided similar      |                |
|                          | domic on a different     |                |
|                          | site *or* provided       |                |
|                          | temporary shelter in     |                |
|                          | municipal facility.      |                |
|                          |                          |                |
|                          | 3b. If *all* members of  |                |
|                          | the household are        |                |
|                          | officially registered in |                |
|                          | permanent housing, they  |                |
|                          | are required to remove   |                |
|                          | their domic immediately  |                |
|                          | (within one month) to a  |                |
|                          | site identified by       |                |
|                          | municipality, (if        |                |
|                          | necessary, with          |                |
|                          | assistance of            |                |
|                          | municipality). If the    |                |
|                          | domic cannot be removed, |                |
|                          | then the occupants must  |                |
|                          | vacate the domic.        |                |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+

+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 4\. HH received housing  | The household is         | On an          |
| from the state/donor but | required to remove domic | individual     |
| *sold it and moved back* | immediately (within one  | case basis, a  |
| to domic                 | month) to a site         | decision might |
|                          | identified by            | be made to     |
|                          | municipality, if         | relocate domic |
|                          | necessary, with          | at the expense |
|                          | assistance of            | of             |
|                          | municipality. If         | municipality   |
|                          | necessary, municipality  | or to provide  |
|                          | will move/destroy the    | temporary      |
|                          | domic.                   | shelter in a   |
|                          |                          | municipal      |
|                          |                          | facility.      |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 5.  Moved in domic from  | 5a. If a household has   | 5b. Exchange   |
|     outside Gyumri       | permanent housing        | with the       |
|     (refugees are        | registration in Armenia  | vacant domic   |
|     suggested to be      | but outside Gyumri, it   | on another     |
|     treated under 5b     | is required to vacate    | site (if       |
|     variant); a          | its domic within one     | available)     |
|     political decision   | month. After one month,  | might also be  |
|     is to be made        | the domic is being       | offered; *or*  |
|     whether to treat     | demolished.              | provided       |
|     earthquake displaced |                          | temporary      |
|     from *other parts*   | 5b. If a household has   | shelter in     |
|     of EQZ under 5a      | registration in a        | municipal      |
|     variant or under     | temporary residence in   | facility       |
|     variant #1           | Gyumri, it is obliged to |                |
|                          | remove their domic       |                |
|                          | immediately (in one      |                |
|                          | month) to the site       |                |
|                          | identified by            |                |
|                          | municipality, if         |                |
|                          | necessary, with          |                |
|                          | assistance of the        |                |
|                          | municipality.            |                |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+
| 6\. Moved in domic from  | Households sign          | No             |
| other temporary housing  | notification that during | compensation   |
| in Gyumri (i.e. from     | next 6 months it might   | is offered to  |
| dormitory), i.e. did not | be obliged to relocate   | domics.        |
| have permanent housing   | its domic to a site      |                |
| (as a State tenant)      | assigned by the          | Consider       |
| before the Earthquake).  | municipality, if         | processing     |
|                          | necessary, with          | them for HC    |
|                          | municipality's           | eligibility.   |
|                          | assistance *or* will be  |                |
|                          | provided similar domic   |                |
|                          | on a different site or   |                |
|                          | provided with temporary  |                |
|                          | shelter in municipal     |                |
|                          | facility.                |                |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+----------------+

6.  The Municipality must determine the exact boundaries of the Pilot
    Site and adopt a formal Mayoral Decision on: "Recovery of the Site
    for Urban Renewal and Public Good".

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7.  With the intent of completely clearing the pilot site, households
    from categories **1,2, 3a** and **6** (in the above table) should
    *eventually* be forced to relocate/destroy the domic. The objective
    is to *facilitate* relocation of these categories so NOT to be
    viewed as a penalty for *eligible* households which decline a
    Certificate (which would undermine the idea of the *voluntary*
    nature of HC program). Households from these four categories which
    are physically on the periphery (edge) of the subject site *might*
    be allowed to remain in the domic indefinitely, only if their
    presence will not be disruptive to future development, or where
    there is some certainty that the households' damaged building will
    be reinforced within a reasonable period of time.

8.  Domics which have evolved into a "permanent-like" appearance and
    status (i.e. like stone masonry) should also receive special
    consideration, *only if* their ongoing presence will not be
    disruptive to future site development and will not diminish overall
    site utility and value (on a case by case analysis). This category
    may be permitted to privatize the structure and is removed from the
    housing waiting list.