YEREVAN. - Yerevan Mayor Karen Karapetyan held a meeting on Wednesday with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Representative Damtew Dessalegne.

At present, 1,300 refugees living in Yerevan hostels need housing.

The Yerevan Mayor informed UNHCR representative of a social housing program being discussed now. Under the program, refugee families will be offered solutions, the Yerevan city hall told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Damtew Dessalegne said that the problem can be more effectively resolved in cooperation with the UNHCR.

The sides also discussed alternative ways of resolving the housing problem.