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Property Restitution and Private Rental Housing in Transition: The Case of the Czech Republic

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  • Martin Lux
  • Martina Mikeszova

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The objective of this paper is to explain one phenomenon evident in the transformation of post-socialist states that has received insufficient scholarly attention to date: the restitution of the housing stock in terms of its causes and consequences. In this paper, the theory of social constructivism, including Kemeny's advanced application of this theory to the field of housing studies, is used to (a) explain the causes for a particular type of property restitution in the Czech Republic and (b) outline its consequences on the role and long-term social meaning of private rental housing. This research explains how restitution was viewed by the main participants in this discourse, and how the whole process was legitimised and socially constructed in the Czech Republic. The evidence presented stems from a multi-method analysis of discourse that integrates the results of in-depth interviews, content analysis of the press, and an analysis of data from attitude surveys. The paper shows how the initial state of consensus surrounding the image of restitution quickly dissolved. The emergence of divisions combined with the inadequate response of the state generated a biased image of private rental housing among Czech citizens—a pattern that persists to the present.

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  • Martin Lux & Martina Mikeszova, 2012. "Property Restitution and Private Rental Housing in Transition: The Case of the Czech Republic," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(1), pages 77-96.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:27:y:2012:i:1:p:77-96
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.629643
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    1. Magdalena Górczyńska, 2018. "Mechanisms of property ownership change and social change in inner-city Warsaw (Poland)," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(13), pages 2803-2820, October.
    2. Vaníček Jiří, 2019. "Disparities in Urban Tourism in the Czech Republic," Czech Journal of Tourism, Sciendo, vol. 8(1), pages 33-47, June.
    3. Joanna Kusiak, 2019. "Legal Technologies of Primitive Accumulation: Judicial Robbery and Dispossession‐by‐Restitution in Warsaw," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(4), pages 649-665, July.
    4. Martin Lux & Tomáš Samec & Vojtech Bartos & Petr Sunega & Jan Palguta & Irena Boumová & Ladislav Kážmér, 2018. "Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 55(2), pages 406-426, February.
    5. Trembecka Anna & Kwartnik-Pruc Anita, 2018. "Problems of Real Estate Management with Respect to Claims for Restitution of Expropriated Properties," Real Estate Management and Valuation, Sciendo, vol. 26(3), pages 105-112, September.
    6. Richard SENDI & Barbara Èerniè MALI, 2015. "Surviving In Limbo: An Insight Into Slovenia’S Informal Private Rented Housing Sector," Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Research Centre in Public Administration and Public Services, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 10(4), pages 19-39, November.

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