137 houses in the village of Talas, Kyrgyzstan, have been declared ownerless, leaving the people living in them unable to formalise their homes for years, a...

137 houses in the village of Talas, Kyrgyzstan, have been declared ownerless, leaving the people living in them unable to formalise their homes for years, a local resident told AKIpress.
Why it matters: without papers, a house cannot be sold, inherited or used as collateral, so an administrative label becomes a lifetime of insecurity for whole families.
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