Members of the ERRC group visited the dwellings of two families now living in basements after having been evicted from their apartments. Milan Balog and aneta Krokov live in the first flat we saw. They do not have electricity or running water. They live in one room of approximately fifteen square metres, with very little furniture, no cooking facilities, and no electricity. As the room is at the back of the basement, there are no windows and therefore no natural light at all.
Ventilation is very bad.
The second basement room we visited was in another building. It was approximately the same size as the first and there were five people living in it. Again there were no windows, poor ventilation and not enough space for five people to sleep. They showed us a bathroom down the corridor which was a big room, very cold and windowless. There was a working shower there and a flushing toilet, but everything was in very poor condition and there is no hot water.