Subotica: A new home for 44 refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

In Subotica, the keys to 44 apartments, intended for refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, were handed over. The apartments were built within the framework of the eighth sub-project of the Regional Housing Program.

The award ceremony was attended by the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Serbia, Ambassador Emmanuel Giuffre, Ambassador of Austria Christian Ebner, Mayor of Subotica Stevan Bakić, Second Secretary of the German Embassy in Serbia Daniel Mohseny, Head of the UNHCR Integration Department in Serbia Ivana Jelić, Director of the Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit Dušan Kovačević and Commissioner for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia Nataša Stanisavljević.

"The Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit will continue to work diligently with the Commissariat, because our goal is for all refugee families to be permanently taken care of. Our goal was also supported by the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and the implementation of the Regional Housing Program is very effective, all with the aim of permanent integration of refugees", said the Director of the Public Sector Projects Implementation Unit, Dušan Kovačević.

The apartments with a total gross area of about 3,000 square meters were built in a year. The value of the construction is about 1.2 million euros.

The Regional Housing Programme is a joint multi-year programme of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, which aims to provide durable housing solutions for the most vulnerable refugee families in the region.

It is supported by the OSCE, UNHCR and the Council of Europe Development Bank, and is funded by the European Union, which is also the largest donor, the United States, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.