Evicted Roma to get new homes

<a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=10&dd=07&nav_id=70145" class="text-link" target= "_blank">After their houses were demolished</a> and they spent two days protesting in front of the City Hall, the evicted Roma will be given new housing this afternoon.

Izvor: B92

Friday, 08.10.2010.

13:41

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After their houses were demolished and they spent two days protesting in front of the City Hall, the evicted Roma will be given new housing this afternoon. Assistant Human and Minority Rights Minister Petar Antic told B92 that temporary solution had been found after the meeting with Deputy Mayor Milan Krkobabic. Evicted Roma to get new homes After they spent last night at a local shelter and their friends’ and another morning protesting in front of the City Hall, 33 Roma families will get new homes. “The Human and Minority Rights Ministry has agreed with the city to provide the funds for housing containers as a way of mobile housing, i.e. as a temporary housing until permanent solution. That way all 33 persons, all eight families will be housed in housing containers in the neighborhood of Makis. And all of them be eligible to apply for social housing, which means that they will have a place to stay until permanent solutions are provided,” Antic explained. Numerous NGOs have given their support to the evicted people, among others representatives of Amnesty International, an international organization aiming at defending human rights, who have arrived in Belgrade because of the upcoming gay Pride Parade. The demolished Roma settlement

Evicted Roma to get new homes

After they spent last night at a local shelter and their friends’ and another morning protesting in front of the City Hall, 33 Roma families will get new homes.

“The Human and Minority Rights Ministry has agreed with the city to provide the funds for housing containers as a way of mobile housing, i.e. as a temporary housing until permanent solution. That way all 33 persons, all eight families will be housed in housing containers in the neighborhood of Makiš. And all of them be eligible to apply for social housing, which means that they will have a place to stay until permanent solutions are provided,” Antić explained.

Numerous NGOs have given their support to the evicted people, among others representatives of Amnesty International, an international organization aiming at defending human rights, who have arrived in Belgrade because of the upcoming gay Pride Parade.

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