A report by the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees said that many people who were displaced from Kosovo following the 1990s conflict have no income or adequate housing.

The Serbian Commissariat for Refugees on Monday presented a report on the living conditions of refugees from Kosovo in Serbia which said that some 68,500 out of almost 200,000 are socially vulnerable.

Deputy commissioner Svetlana Velimirovic told media in Belgrade that these refugees are considered to be “in need”, meaning they struggle with poor housing and unemployment or have little to no income.

“The job of the Commissariat is to monitor the needs [of displaced people] in order to better use the limited funds available to us,” Velimirovic said.

The report was produced with the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. One of its authors, Ivana Anic Curko from the Commissariat for Refugees, said that with the institution’s limited budget it would take 55 years to solve the problems of the 68,500 displaced people from Kosovo who are in need.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-refugees-struggle-with-poverty-in-serbia-report-10-01-2018