The City Council of Mostar adopted the draft decision on subsidizing the first residential property for young people, one hundred marks per square meter of living space. Good news for young people is the start of work on the Youth Strategy in this city.
800,000 marks will be allocated from the budget of the City of Mostar for a subsidy for young people to buy their first property and help for parents of children who go to private kindergartens. The drafters were guided by the experiences of other local communities, the needs of young people and inflation.
“We are also thinking about the possibility of building apartments at special prices, where the City should get involved, however, this requires serious logistics in the City due to enormous other problems. This is something that we will certainly think about during this year and try to additionally help those young people,” Mayor Mario Kordić says.
The mayor rejected the opposition’s claims that it was populism, that is, a pre-election trick by the government. Young people will be the focus in the future. It is estimated that nearly ten thousand young people left Mostar in the last decade.
“In the city of Mostar, we do not have an adopted Youth Strategy, which is the key document for all these things to move forward. Despite the fact that we do not have one, the authorities have again decided to give such money to young people to buy an apartment. This is commendable. We expect to receive more money,” says Zaim Mehić, a youth activist.
And more money for the needs of young people should be brought by the Youth Strategy, which is currently being drafted. It is estimated that she could come to life in June this year.
“We are currently in the analysis and research phase. We are collecting data that will help to understand the needs and desires of young people, as well as the challenges they face. Based on this, we will create a strategy. It will bring a solution to the problem and help improve it for a better life and contribute to young people stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” says Sara Kazazić, president of the Mostar Youth Council.
Official statistics record a drastic drop in the number of students at domestic faculties. What the losses will be if the trend of young people leaving is not stopped, the authorities in the country do not have an answer, because they have not dealt with this problem in the past years. We hope that Mostar has turned over a new leaf with this, Federalna writes.
