Implications of accommodation in military facilities and adapted spaces to the standard of living of the Serbian Armed Forces members

Abstract

One of the biggest, several-decade-present, problems of employees in the Serbian Armed Forces is a large number of unresolved housing issues, both of active duty personnel and of retired persons. It is widely known that by solving the housing problem, a member of the Armed Forces resolves a paramount vital issue, which is of particular importance to his/her family. In recent years, joint efforts of relevant government and military structures have made significant progress in terms of permanent housing solutions for a number of homeless members of the Armed Forces. These improvements can be measured by the number of allocated flats under lease for an indefinite period of time and by subsidized housing loans granted, whereby the respective individual has eventually settled his/her housing problem, but this still includes small number of persons employed in the Armed Forces. However, despite the efforts and visible progress made recently, a ranking list of applications for solving the housing problems is still very long and is measured in thousands of claims. This paper aims to point to, with the use of elemental analysis, the costs of housing and the method of evaluation and ranking of the 'housing inadequacy' criteria for certain categories of the Armed Forces members who have not finally solved their housing problem, namely the 'military homeless'. This paper presents detailed analysis of housing costs and housing inadequacy for temporary use of accommodation in military facilities and adapted living spaces, so-called 'emergency accommodations'.