USLUŽNE DELATNOSTI STAMBENIH ZADRUGA U REPUBLICI SRBIJI

Abstract

Housing cooperatives in developed democratic societies are agents of active housing policy. Their role is to inform the public about current housing problems, issues and needs, and to put pressure on the ruling majority to make additional investments and consider improving and meeting housing needs. Housing cooperatives are often entrusted with the construction of affordable apartments (social housing), as well as their management. Unlike some European countries, for example Germany and Austria, where cooperatives built almost a fifth of the total number of apartments after the Second World War, in Serbia the state decided to abandon the management of housing policy and left it to the laws of the market. In this way, and as shown in the paper, the right to housing in the Republic of Serbia has become extremely expensive, almost unsustainable, and this has incalculable consequences for the youth and those who have yet to start a family.