The Prague City Hall will provide six rental apartments to Afghan families who were evacuated from the country last year and who applied for international protection in the Czech Republic. After the Taliban took control of most of Afghanistan last year, the Czech Republic withdrew about two hundred people from the country in three flights. According to last year’s information, about 150 of them applied for asylum or additional protection in the Czech Republic. The city has provided apartments for people from conflict-affected areas in the past, and is now helping refugees from Ukraine.
The Department of Asylum and Migration Policy of the Ministry of the Interior asked the Mayor of Prague Zdeněk Hřib (Pirates) to provide flats. Subsequently, the Prague councilor for housing Adam Zábranský (Pirates) was in charge of selecting suitable flats. Six families with three to seven members will live in flats of 1 + 1 to 4 + 1, which are located in Černý Most, Křeslice and in the Old and New Towns.
The municipality set the rent at CZK 100 per square meter per month. “As part of the state integration program, tenants of flats will be provided, among other things, with direct housing support, ie assistance with the payment of first rents, basic household equipment and the like,” the approved document states. Lease agreements will be concluded for one year with the possibility of extension.
In the past, Prague has provided apartments to refugees from, for example, Cuba, the Middle East and Belarus. Now the city council and the city districts of Prague also provide housing for people fleeing the war from Ukraine. According to an analysis published last year by the city’s Institute of Planning and Development (IPR), the municipality had 7,265 flats in the middle of last year, while 57 of Prague’s city districts had 23,080 to manage them.
Source: CTK
