Yerevan Municipality requests 2 more months to address housing  concerns of  Vardashen hostel residents

ArmInfo. Residents of the Vardashen hostel, whose building is currently classified as being in a state of emergency (IV category of emergency), held protests near  the Yerevan Municipality and the Government of Armenia. The living  conditions in hostel are simply unbearable and pose a direct threat  to the residents' health.  Protesters said that Yerevan Mayor Tigran  Avinyan visited the hostel nearly 2 years ago, saw the living  conditions firsthand, and promised to resolve this issue within a  year and a half, by providing the  residents with a new place to  live.

Mainly women were participating in the protest, who blocked the road  near City Hall, after which a large number of security forces  gathered near the municipality building. Vahan Khachatryan, the head  of the Yerevan Municipality Real Estate Department,  came out to  address the protesters, asking them to wait another 2 months.  Unsatisfied with the response, the residents of the hostel then  proceeded to the government building. About an hour later, 8 citizens  were able to meet Hamlet Nazaryan, the head of the Department for  Consideration of Applications, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Citizen  Feedback, at the RA Prime Minister's Office. Following the meeting  with the latter, the protesters stated that they had submitted  another appeal to the RA government in order to understand how long  it would take to receive answers to their questions.