Area: Okolje in prostor
Competent authority: MOP
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 993
Initiative accepted and completed: .nan
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2019-12-13'
Initiative published: '2019-12-13'
Initiative submitted: '2019-12-13'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of the Environment\
  \ and Spatial Planning:The municipality itself determines its housing policy by\
  \ providing funds for the construction, acquisition and rental of non-profit housing\
  \ and residential buildings intended to temporarily address the housing needs of\
  \ socially deprived persons. Thus, municipalities or their housing funds do not\
  \ have permanently vacant housing, or there is only vacant housing in municipalities\
  \ where there is no interest in renting.\r\nPursuant to Article 87 of the Housing\
  \ Act (SZ-1), all citizens of the Republic of Slovenia who meet the required income\
  \ and asset conditions may apply to rent non-profit housing owned by a municipality,\
  \ the State, a public housing fund or a non-profit housing organisation. The landlord\
  \ is obliged to identify in each individual call for tenders the dwellings to be\
  \ rented to applicants who, in view of their social circumstances, are unable to\
  \ pay even their own contribution and security deposit. In this way, each call for\
  \ tenders guarantees a quota of housing for applicants who are socially weaker.\
  \ The landlord may also call for the allocation of non-profit rental flats with\
  \ a down payment, which are available to applicants above a certain income threshold.\r\
  \nTenants can also obtain a rent subsidy. Qualifying tenants of non-profit housing\
  \ are entitled to a subsidy of up to 80 % of the non-profit rent (Article 121 SZ-1).\
  \ However, tenants occupying market housing are also entitled to a subsidised rent\
  \ if they were on the priority list for the allocation of non-profit housing in\
  \ the last public call for tenders for the allocation of housing in the municipality\
  \ of residence, but were unable to obtain housing because the municipality failed\
  \ to provide sufficient housing. Similarly, tenants of market housing are eligible\
  \ for a subsidy if the municipality of their permanent residence did not publish\
  \ a public call for housing at all or published it more than a year ago (Article\
  \ 121a of the SZ-1). The amount of the subsidy, which consists of two parts, a non-profit\
  \ part and a market part, is set out in Article 121b of the SZ-1.    \r\n  \r\n\
  With the adoption of the new housing legislation, a Public Rental Service will also\
  \ be established to rent out the acquired apartments to the beneficiaries of public\
  \ housing at cost rent, while the amount of rent to be paid by the Public Rental\
  \ Service to the owner of the apartment as a monthly compensation for the use of\
  \ the apartment will be subject to individual agreement. The introduction of a public\
  \ rental service aims at activating empty apartments whose owners do not choose\
  \ to enter the rental market for various reasons, such as fear of defaulters, uneconomic\
  \ treatment of their property, excessive bureaucracy. A public rental service will\
  \ relieve owners of all the hassle and risk of renting out their homes and, in the\
  \ long term, will ensure that they receive a regular income, making it easier for\
  \ these owners to choose to rent out their homes."
Text file: 993.txt
Title: All empty housing in the municipalities is given to tenants
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=993
