Social Housing in Transition Countries [Paperback]

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.

Section I  1. The Transformation of the Social Housing Sector in Eastern Europe: A Conceptual Framework  J?zsef Heged?s  Section II: Critical Issues in the Transition Process  2. Housing Privatization and Restitution  J?zsef Heged?s  3. Financing Social Housing  Wolfgang Amman, J?zsef Heged?s, Martin Lux and Elisabeth Springler  4. Rent Regulation and Housing Allowances  Martin Lux and Alexandr Puzanov  5. Social Landlords and Social Housing Management  J?zsef Heged?s and N?ra Teller  6. Housing Exclusion of the Roma: Living on the Edge  Catalin Berescu, Mina Petrovi and N?ra Teller  Section IIIl3*