Sofia It hasn’t been easy for the Organizers’ Forum to get our arms around housing issues in Sofia or Bucharest. People agree that rents are going up, but that’s about all. The numbers say that the percentage of homeowners vastly outnumbers tenants. In Romania, there is claim of over 90% homeownership. In Bulgaria, …
Author: Chief Organizer
Social Services, Immigrant Solidarity, and Bulgarian Activism
Sofia It’s not an insult to say that Bulgaria is a smaller and poorer country than Romania. It’s just the truth. In talking to various organizations and activists, they have also emphasized to us the difficult and challenging social infrastructure for citizens as well as immigrants. We had hoped to meet David Bisset …
Roma for Democracy
Bucharest The Roma people constitute about 12% of the Romanian population with between 1.8 and 2.2 million people disbursed across the country, even though official census figures number only 600,000. Their minority status has led to intense discrimination in the region for hundreds of years. We were meeting with Alin Banu, the Executive Director …