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Social Housing In The Czech Republic, Poland And Slovakia

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This article provides a comparative description of the development of the social housing sector in three transitional countries during the 1990s. Several features of social housing in the EU countries are mentioned to establish the indicators used as the methodological base for a critical evaluation of the development of social housing in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. The indicators mainly reflect the targeting of supply- and demand-side housing subsidies, and the existence or quality of new legislation governing the operation of social housing in these countries. A brief description of housing reforms, changes in tenure structure and the social consequences of slow process of the transformation of rental housing is added. Though many problems remain unsolved the situation in Poland seems to be the most promising of the three countries studied because the new legislation allows for new social housing construction, and old housing policy measures were adopted to be targeted at households in real social need. In contrast, the low standard of 'social housing' legislation and the maintenance of non-targeted rent regulation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia do not improve housing affordability for lower income households.

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  • Martin Lux, 2001. "Social Housing In The Czech Republic, Poland And Slovakia," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 189-209.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurjhp:v:1:y:2001:i:2:p:189-209
    DOI: 10.1080/14616710110083425
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    1. Duebel, Hans-Joachim & Brzeski, W. Jan & Hamilton, Ellen, 2006. "Rental choice and housing policy realignment in transition : post-privatization challenges in the Europe and Central Asia region," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3884, The World Bank.
    2. Kholodilin, Konstantin A. & Kohl, Sebastian & Müller, Florian, 2022. "The rise and fall of social housing? Housing decommodification in long-run perspective," MPIfG Discussion Paper 22/3, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    3. Ashot Tsharakyan & Petr Zemčík, 2016. "Did rent deregulation alter tenure choice decisions in the Czech Republic?," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 24(2), pages 335-360, April.
    4. Ashot Tsharakyan & Petr Zemcik, 2011. "Rent Deregulation, Tenure Choice, and Real Estate Price Expectations," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp430, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    5. Martin Lux, 2003. "Efficiency and effectiveness of housing policies in the Central and Eastern Europe countries," European Journal of Housing Policy, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 3(3), pages 243-265.

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