Housing

As long as demand is greater than supply, apartment prices will go up, architect Branka Bonjak tells RTS and reveals when prices are expected to start declining.

Athens Municipality has started to distribute backpacks filled with basic essentials for the winter to homeless people in the city.

On Thursday evening, street work teams distributed backpacks to homeless people, each of which contained sleeping bags, blankets, jackets, water resistant trousers, thermos flasks, flashlights and whistles.

Due to the increasing property prices and a growing demand to live in nature amid the pandemic, the sale of "non-dwelling properties" has topped the sale of houses and apartments in 2021, causing a boom in the sales of tiny houses and breaking new grounds in the country.

As the prices of renting a flat in Turkey have exploded, leaving house-hunters and students in particular in a state of turmoil, lawyers have warned against landlords asking tenants for an interim raise even though they are entitled to a one-year raise.

The rapid increase in rental prices due to limited supply and excessive demand in the market

Turkish students have taken to the streets, some sleeping rough, to draw attention to an acute accommodation crisis - but the government is unimpressed.

The centre in Pristina is located on a small patch of land belonging to the Pristina Municipality in a concrete unfinished structure built in 1997 for the heating company, Termokos - hence its name. Both the municipality and the heating company gave their blessings to the initiative.

Listening to the radio recently, I heard an interview with a prominent chef who, at the age of 58 and with numerous distinctions under his belt, is considered a pioneer of the Greek culinary scene.

Until recently the Crisis Center in Sofia housed those in need only in the evening, but because of the extremely low temperatures, homeless people are now welcome there all day.

Nearly 90 people are benefiting from the Crisis Center service at this time, NOVA TV reports.

A little over 41 percent of Bulgarians live in overcrowded dwellings, according to the latest data from the European statistical office Eurostat. This means that they do not have sufficient number of rooms for the size of their household.

Staff at an additional 40 hospitals will be admitted into Greece's coronavirus vaccination drive starting Monday and another 36 will join on January 11, according to Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias.

The ministry's aim, he said in a briefing last week, is to have more than 60,000 health workers immunized against Covid-19 by January 20.