Social Housing in Transition Countries

Description

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected countries’ social housing sectors, and showing what conditions have decisively impacted these processes. Contributors depict the different paths the countries have taken by reviewing the policy changes, the conditions institutions work within, and the solutions that were selected to answer the housing needs of vulnerable households. They discuss whether the differences among the countries have emerged due to the time lag caused by belated reforms in selected countries, or whether any of the disparities can be attributed to differences inherited from Soviet times. Since some of the countries have recently become member states of the European Union, the volume also explores whether there were any convergence trends in the policy approaches to social housing that can be attributed to the general changes brought about by the EU accession. Cover Social Housing in Transition Countries Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments PART I 1 The Transformation of the Social Housing Sector in Eastern Europe: A Conceptual Framework PART II Critical Issues in the Transition Process 2 Housing Privatization and Restitution 3 Financing Social Housing 4 Rent Regulation and Housing Allowances 5 Social Landlords and Social Housing Management 6 Housing Exclusion of the Roma: Living on the Edge PART III Country Case Studies 7 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Limits of the Human Rights Approach to Social Housing 8 Croatia: The Social Housing Search Delayed by Postwar Reconstruction 9 The Czech Republic: Locked between Municipal and Social Housing 10 Estonia: Residualization of Social Housing and the New Programs 11 Hungary: Ideas and Plans without Political Will 12 Poland: Old Problems and New Dilemmas 13 Romania: The National Housing Agency—A Key Stakeholder in Housing Policy 14 Russia: The Persistence of the Socialist Legacy? 15 Serbia: A Patchwork of Local Options 16 Slovakia: On the Way to the Stable Social Housing Concept 17 Slovenia: The Social Housing Sector in Search of an Identity 18 The Ukraine: Waiting Lists without Housing PART IV 19 New Social Housing Strategies in Post-Socialist States: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Sustainability Contributors Index