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Keys to 25 newly built apartments in Sabac were handed over to refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia

Today, 22 December 2022 keys to the 25 newly built apartments intended for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia were handed over in Šabac. The apartments were built as part of the Regional Housing Programme, Sub-Project 2.

The total gross area of the building is 1,584 m² to the value of €540,504.65. The Occupation Permit was issued on 30 September 2022.

The event was attended by Nataša Stanisavljević, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Pajić, Mayor of Šabac, Mirjana Maksimović, representative of the Delegation of the European Union in Serbia, Ellen Stie, Acting Ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of Norway in the Republic of Serbia, Richard Kohli, Director of the Swiss Embassy Cooperation Office in the Republic of Serbia, Jadranka Mašić-Pavlović, Representative of the OSCE, Dušan Kovačević, Director of Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit Ltd.  Belgrade, representatives of other Donors, State and International Organizations and Institutions.

"The regional housing program in Serbia aims to provide housing for approximately 7,000 of the most vulnerable families from the territory of the former Yugoslavia who have the status of refugees. The Commissariat for Refugees and Migration has done a lot in aiding refugees, displaced and exiled persons. Of course, the most significant results are related to housing care and as part of this programme a total of 6,869 housing solutions have been allocated to the Beneficiaries thus far while in Šabac total support through both Budget and Donor funds has been provided to 487 families, of which housing solutions were received by 350 families, 87 through the Regional Housing Programme and 137 families were economically empowered. An Occupation Permit was provided for the newly built residential building on the territory of the local Self-Government District Pećinci therefore by the end of the year we expect an allocation of another 15 residential units for the refugee families while in the next year we will continue with that policy, and we expect to solve the housing issue for more than 500 families," said Commissioner Nataša Stanisavljević.

The Regional Housing Programme is a joint recurrent Programme of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia which aims to provide permanent housing solutions to the most vulnerable refugee families in the Region. It is implemented with the support of the OSCE, the UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank and it is financed with the funds from the European Union which is also the largest donor, the United States, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.