- Six of them stayed in the Cancer Director's railway camp, which became a ghost village
- Arab real estate developers will build a luxury area in the former industrial area
- MÁV filed a lawsuit against residents who did not move by the deadline
One- and two-room cottages with green gardens are razed. A few months ago, MÁV sent a letter to people living here saying they had to leave. Some people can move to another rented apartment on the other side of town. It is not known how long they can stay there under the new contract. The others were given thirty days to choose their support columns.
A year ago, no one would have imagined that everything would suddenly change. Johann Edet devotedly cared for her seriously ill husband all day long. Peter Mattei proudly showed his relatives his bathroom that he built with his own hands, while telling the neighbor that although he will retire next year, he will not stop working because the garden is beautiful, but he will be bored at home. On the other hand, Ilona Nagy prefers to rest, but she cannot get out of her pension, so she works when she is seventy years old. Recently, the postman sent a letter to all of them: MÁV has filed a lawsuit against them because they did not leave by the deadline. Deserving tenants have been offered exchange apartments and money, but some are still stuck here in the neighborhood doomed for demolition.
Peter Mattei and his wife also received a letter from MÁV stating that the company had filed a lawsuit against them. He said no homeless person would accept the exchange apartment offered. / Photo: Gabor Wošek
– No homeless person will accept the house they offer! The roof is torn and the window cannot be closed. Where can I get the millions to fix it? We spent all the money we saved on pigeons, because I was convinced that we had lived in a nomadic way for thirty years, I had done it myself. Should I leave him here and go to a pile of rubble? -Peter Mattei rightly asked this question, in reference to why he also filed the lawsuit against the railroad.
If only he and his wife were waiting for him at home in Keresztúri út!
– Under the contract they put in front of me, they can resign at any time with one month's notice. I received a rumor that many of those who signed it were already on the street, including retirees. I didn't want to go to the mailbox shaking every morning, so we started the lawsuit instead. I still have ten or fifteen years left, and I want to spend them in peace – explained Peter Mattei.
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According to the residents' joint lawyer, Peter Spichazi, the tenants are protected under legislation passed in the 1970s, which was in place when the railways contracted with them. This also applies to them now: they can only be evicted if MÁV provides them with housing on the same conditions. This could be another rental property of the same quality, or cash that can be used to purchase an apartment. But the few million forints provided by the railways are not enough even in rural areas. Although the residents involved in the lawsuit do not work for MÁV, since the railway had previously written the lease in their name, or had been sending rent checks in their name for years, they were recognized as bona fide tenants without legal title with almost the same rights as tenants, so old – Under the protection of the old law.
Edit Johan was initially optimistic about the change, even happy about the news of the construction.
-I wanted to move before I got cancer too. Most of the people here in Rakosrendis died of cancer. My mother-in-law, my neighbor, but there, in that house, the residents were also transferred due to cancer. My husband also has cancer. This is a cursed place, or something is poisoning the people here Edit Gohan said sadly.
Women used to buy a winter stove in the summer, because it was cheaper then, but now they had the October cold without wood, and they didn't plan to spend the fall here, especially with the railway. For lack of a better option, they heat it with expensive gas cylinders.
– The apartment they offered is located on the top floor, and I cannot move there with my sick husband, because he may end up in a wheelchair at any time. The other apartment shown did not have a kitchen and our furniture did not fit either. My husband's illness has consumed all our reserves, and I cannot afford another piece of furniture. We don't want luxury, we want a ground floor house similar to the one we have now. Until then, we live on tranquilizers and cry a lot She complained.
“I won't let them put me in prison from here!” – Residents of Rakosrendis are not happy with mini Dubai
Their neighbor Ilona Nagy has already signed a contract with MÁV for the rest of her life, has packed most of her belongings and is ready to move. However, he was among the residents who were prosecuted.
– They did not want to show the apartment to Keresztúri út before signing the contract. How can I accept something I haven't seen? It is completely incomprehensible. It's as if they are playing to annoy everyone. People have been dying here since this started. One of my neighbors had a heart attack, and the other had cancer. Maybe they expect something to happen to me?! Well, I won't give up, even though I have a heart condition! I asked my doctor to give me a very good medicine so that I could survive this torture! Ilona Nagy shook her head.
He really wants to leave here. Since they started clearing out the property and boarding up the windows, the homeless have been showing up, and the noisy movers have been breaking into the homes one by one. Others bring garbage and filth here. The former Eden on Tatay Street, where Ilona Nagy spent her childhood, is now overgrown with weeds, covered in dirt and poverty. There is nothing that haunts the seventy-year-old woman, although she is bound here by many bittersweet memories.
-I grew up here, fell in love here for the first time, and my daughter was born and died here. I buried my sixty-four-year-old mother here, who also had cancer. Not me, life has confirmed my existence, MÁV can't have a good time with me!
