Minister Raz Hands over 24 New Rental Flats in Eastern Slovakia

Pecovska Nova Ves, March 17 (TASR) - A total of 24 new rental flats were handed over for use in the village of Pecovska Nova Ves (Presov region) on Monday, with Transport Minister Jozef Raz (a Smer-SD nominee), director of the State Housing Development Fund (SFRB) Milan Lipka and mayor of the municipality Jaroslav Dujava in attendance. The village wants to provide a total of 72 single-room, one-bedroom and two-bedroom flats in six apartment buildings in three stages. The project is being implemented thanks to a subsidy from the Transport Ministry and SFRB financial support. "As we could see, these are very nice and modern flats in which the tenants will be pleased to live. Pecovska Nova Ves is a good example of how active leadership by the municipality is able to provide quality housing for its inhabitants through our subsidy programme to support the construction of rental flats. I believe that they will be able to complete the project successfully and that they will encourage other mayors," said the minister. Raz conceded that the ministry is struggling with financial consolidation, a lack of funds and a cap on public spending, but he said that it has been able to maintain this subsidy scheme, which has low interest rates, in this case 0 percent. am/df