Housing care in assisted areas

If you are interested in obtaining housing care in assisted areas, an application is submitted to the competent administrative body of the relevant county 

Applications for housing care are submitted to competent administrative bodies in counties. The call for applications is publicly published on the website of the Ministry of physical planning, Construction and State assets and counties.
 
In the proceedings following filed applications for housing care, the competent administrative bodies in the counties are resolved in the first instance, while in the proceedings following filed appeals in the second instance the Ministry of physical planning, Construction and State assets is resolved.
 
Applications for housing care are submitted to the locally competent county according to the area where housing care is sought.
 
The deadline for submitting applications for housing care is from 1 January to 31 January of the current year.
 
If you were on the priority list for the current year and you did not receive the decision of the competent administrative body in the county and you are still interested in housing care, you do not need to submit a new application because it is transferred to the priority list for the next year, where the order on the priority list is determined again.
 
Priority lists are published in the current year by 15 March at the latest, on the websites of competent administrative bodies in counties, as well as on their bulletin boards.
 
Applicants shall have the right to comment on the published priority lists within 8 days from the date of their publication.
 
Executive priority lists shall be published by 31 March of the current year at the latest.

Required documentation

The application for housing care shall contain the following information:
  • the name of the applicant and the name and surname of all family members applied for;
  • number of the applicant's social security number and all family members
  • address of residence and/or residence
  • name and surname of the proxy to receive the document and its address (if the party lives abroad)
  • an indication and description of the housing model sought
  • the applicant's handwritten signature.
 
In addition to the application for housing care, the applicant is obliged to provide for himself and all family members to whom the application for housing care relates a copy of the valid identity card or other identification documents and proof of compliance with the requirements for scoring the application in accordance with the Regulation on criteria for scoring applications for housing care. Evidence of compliance with the criteria for scoring at the time of application for housing care shall not be more than six months old.
 
Once the Executive list of priorities has been published, the following documents shall be obtained in the procedure for determining the applicant's rights on the priority list:
  1. certificates of permanent residence and residence in the last 15 years until the filing of the application
  2. certificate of non-possession/possession of real estate by the competent cadastral office
  3. certified by the municipal court or other public register that it owns/does not own the property
  4. data on real estate transactions of the branch office of the tax Administration competent according to the applicant's permanent residence
  5. in the case of housing care by donating building materials for the construction of a family house on the land owned by the applicant and proof of ownership and location information
  6. in case of housing care by donating building materials for renovation, extension/upgrade and completion of construction of a family house or apartment on land owned by the applicant and proof of ownership or consent of the owner/co-owner, proof of legality and location information.
Evidence of facts on which a public law body keeps records in the Republic of Croatia, a conviction that criminal proceedings are not being conducted and a certificate from the criminal record is obtained ex officio by the competent authority which solves upon filed application at first instance.