The Mayor of Banja Luka, Draško Stanivuković, will launch an initiative for families with four or more children to receive free payments for the construction of a residential building, if they have not resolved the housing issue.
In that direction, the mayor will propose to the City Assembly to adopt the Conclusion on launching an initiative to amend the Law on Real Rights, whose goal is to provide housing for families with four or more children, the City Administration announced.
“We will propose this initiative to the City Assembly, because it is our job, and theirs is to decide whether it will continue to harm the citizens and continue blocking good decisions,” Mayor Stanivuković said.
Namely, for some time, multi-member families have been addressing the City with requests for a permanent solution to housing issues.
Apart from the possibility of granting a one-time financial aid to improve the living conditions of families with four or more children, which the City of Banja Luka grants to multi-member families (who already own a residential unit or the land on which the residential unit is located), there is no way to permanently solve the housing issues of these families (who do not own a residential unit or the land on which the residential unit is located) because the current provisions of the Law on Real Rights do not provide for the possibility of disposing of land owned by the City of Banja Luka, free of charge, for the purpose of building residential facilities for families with four or more children.
By amending the Law on real rights, in the proposed way, a legal framework would be created, both for the City and all local self-government units in the Republika Srpska, and for the Republic, to solve the housing issue of multi-member families in a concrete way. Sub-legal regulations would prescribe more detailed conditions and the way of establishing the right to build, without compensation, as prescribed by the provision of Article 348 a. paragraph 3 of the Law on Real Rights.
