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 Housing policies and development of housing tenures

Trends in public and private rental sector in transition countries (privatization, new social housing program – constrains and incentives)

Tamara Petrović

ISBSS

, Celje

tamara.petrovic@mfdps.siSlide2

Identify key events and documents, which assisted in tailoring the rental sector as it is present today in Slovenia and SerbiaAnalyze the situation with the social rental sectorPresentation of the

Social

Housing in Supportive Environment Programme

Purpose

of

the

presentationSlide3

Socialist order in the SFRY - provision of housing for majority of citizens by the state itselfPursuant to Article 164 of the 1974

SFRY

Constitution, citizens could obtain housing right on a dwelling from the public housing stockNe

ed

for rental sector was concealed with the allocation of housing rights and possibilities for affordable housing loans for housing construction or purchasesDissolution of the SFRY – Article 78 of the 1991 RS Constitution: “The state shall create opportunities for citizens to obtain proper housing.” Serbian Constitution has no provision on housing policy.

IntroductionSlide4

1991 Housing Act (HA)Privatization

and ownership

rate

NHP 2000-2009Need for social housing2003 Housing Act (HA-1)4 rental types (market rentals, non-profit rentals, employment based and purpose

rentals

)Rules on renting non-profit apartmentsNational Housing Saving Scheme Act - subsidies

New

legislative

frame

for

housing

policy

-

SloveniaSlide5

The actual construction of non-profit

units

has been

cca

450 units annually, instead of 2,500. At the beginning of the year 2000, the municipalities owned 21,260 dwellings. In 2009, the number was merely 15,728 (restitution, sale).Around 8,300 non-profit units needed.Draft of the new NHP: inadequate occupation of the housing stock and under-development of the rental sector, low affordability of dwellings (especially for young people), energetic inefficiency of the housing stock, low residential mobility of citizens, etc. TodaySlide6

New categorization of rentals

- i

nstead of the non-profit, employment-based and purpose dwellings – the public rental housing

.

Other two categories - private rentals and mixed rentals. New benefit system – the housing allowance (assisting families with the housing costs, promoting rental sector and lawful renting).Novalties Slide7

New regulation of the rental sector (from both legal and political point of view).G

reater

financial support for the municipalities with the most prominent need and the lowest financial capabilities.

Conclusion

: There is a place for new social rental agencies within the Slovenian housing system (both current and prospective).For the future…Slide8

1992 Housing ActPrivatization

and home-ownership rate

I

nflux of refugees and IDP’s, embargos, NATO aggression and Kosovo crisis, change in the regime, economic crisis, etc.Housing policy - SerbiaSlide9

Core activities of privatization performed within the period 1992 and 1994

Similar to other countries

Modest profit

Result

: 98% of home-owners, 2% public housing stockArticle 44 of the HA - 1.3% from the gross salaries for the construction of solidarity apartmentsNineties of the twentieth centurySlide10

Beginning through the middle of the nineties -

refugees from the territories of former Yugoslav republic (especially Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina).

Another

wave of internally displaced persons (

IDPs) during and after 1999 from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. Today around 70,550 registered refugees from the conflicts in ‘90 and 210,000 IDPs from Kosovo. A large proportion still in need of durable housing solutionAs many as 2,540 people (around 500 refugees and 2,000 IDPs) still in 24 collective centresHousing for refugees and internally displaced personsSlide11

National Strategy for Settling the Issues of Refugees and IDPs

from 2002

Settlement and Integration of Refugees Programme CARDS program

me

UNHCR's Social Housing in Supportive Environment modelJoint Regional Program on Durable Solutions for Refugees and IDPs - governments of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in 2011Solutions Slide12

Initiation: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in 2003 Integration of housing solution and social assistanceIntended mostly for the refugee,

IDPs

and local socially endangered householdsConstruction of a multi-unit building for several households; common area

One of the households is a younger socially endangered family, whose role is to assist the other less capable households with their everyday chores

Organization, technical and financial support, their provision - the responsibility of the municipalities Centres for social works are in charge of the allocation of the units to the users and the providing psychological help. Social Housing in Supportive Environment modelSlide13

Users are not able to buy out their unit.Right to use usually allocated for the period of the most severe social hardship.

No rent,

only the running costsThere are approximately 931 such buildings in

42

municipalities across Serbia.Around 2,800 individualsSocial Housing in Supportive Environment modelSlide14

Social Housing Act (2009)

increas

e the number of rental units and assist the most vulnerable groups of citizens with

housing

issuesArticle 10: Eligible are individuals, who are without a(n) (appropriate) dwelling and whose incomes prevent them from obtaining a dwelling under market conditionsNational Housing Agency established in 2012; enacted National Social Housing Strategy (2012)Non-profit housing organizations on municipal levelRecent

developmentSlide15

Social housing is intended for either renting or selling purposes. Units for renting are not to be sold or subleased.

Up to now,

mostly for selling

Programme for Construction of Dwellings for Social Housing

- only for renting The dwellings are to be constructed in the following municipalities: Niš, Kraljevo, Čačak, Kragujevac, Kikinda, Zrenjanin and Pančevo. A part of the funding from the means of the NHA, while the other part by the municipalities

Social

Housing ActSlide16

The situation is improving, although there are a number of issues to be addressed in the future (legislation especially regarding renting, rental sector in general, finances, etc.).Support the successful

programmes

Social rental agencies - already certain actions in this direction, BUT

…

Financial constrainsAll in all…