Agreement with the City of Belgrade on construction of 235 housing units and 80 prefabricated houses and allocation of 350 packages of construction materials and 50 rural households within the third sub-project of the Regional Housing Programme of the Republic of Serbia (RHP) was signed on 6 April 2015 in the City.
The agreement was signed by Vladimir Cucić, Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali and Goran Kvrgić, Director of Project Implementation Unit.
It is expected that the public call for beneficiaries for all four types of housing solutions will be announced soon and within a year moving in of the refugee families.
Total cost of these housing solutions is more than 13.6 million euros, of which almost 11 million in donor funding. The third wave of RHP is intended for the providing of housing solutions for the most vulnerable refugee families in Belgrade.
Regional Housing Programme (RHP) is a joint multi-annual program of the Republic of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of Croatia, which aims to provide permanent housing for about 27,000 of the most vulnerable refugee families, or about 74,000 people in the region. Of this number, 16,780 families are in Serbia, more precisely, about 45,000 people. RHP Serbia will be implemented over the next five years through several sub-projects.
Regional Housing Programme of the Republic of Serbia worth 330 million euros. Regional housing program all four countries is worth 584 million euros and is funded by the European Union, which is the largest donor, the United States, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary .