 Few remaining old artists have no resources to renovate the complex themselves and the area became the gathering site for vagrants and criminals, so the ateliers are often looted.Population of the local community was 3,147 in 1981, 2,240 in 1991, 2,250 in 2002 and 1,862 in 2011.After the new site of the Belgrade Fair was constructed on the right bank of the Sava, Sajmište became known as "Staro Sajmište" ("old fair ground").