Belgrade has largest homeless population in Serbia
Belgrade has the largest population of homeless people in Serbia, a news conference heard on Firday during the presentation of "The Homeless" publication.
Friday, 10.10.2014.
15:35
Belgrade has largest homeless population in Serbia
They are often addicted to alcohol, drugs or gambling.39 percent live in Belgrade, while the province of Vojvodina has the lowest percentage of homeless population, 14 percent, journalists were told.
The 2011 census, which served as the basis for the publication, registered 445 primary homeless persons (those who have no home) in Serbia and 17,842 secondary homeless persons (those who live in informal settlements).
The highest percentage of the homeless - 63 percent - live in urban neighbourhoods, 39 percent of whom reside in Belgrade, said the author of the study, Mirjana Bobić, a professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade.
The number of registered secondary homeless persons is 17.54 percent lower compared to 2002, when there were 21,636 such persons.
Belgrade has the largest population of homeless people who live in informal settlements - in the municipalities of New Belgrade (1,575), Palilula (1,025), Čukarica (754) and Zemun (607).
"In terms of the age and gender structure of the primary homeless, older middle-aged people are the most numerous, specifically men aged 55 to 59 and women aged 45 to 49," Bobić said.
Young people are the most numerous among the secondary homeless population, with one in four registered homeless people aged up to 14 (32 percent), Bobic said.
One in five people is aged 45 to 59 (21 percent), with one in ten people over 70 years of age, she said.
Zoran Jančić, assistant director of the Serbian Statistical Office, said that the publication is the first on marginalised groups that is based on the 2011 census.
Jančić announced that publications on other sensitive groups - the young and the elderly, persons with disabilities and migrants - are to be published soon.
"The 2011 census was the most difficult census conducted up to that point because it introduced questions that had not been included before," Jančić said, adding that one of those questions was related to primary homeless persons.
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