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Author Hegedüs, József

Title Social Housing in Transition Countries
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (349 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
Routledge studies in health and social welfare.
Contents 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 Housing8 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 Concept17 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
Summary 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 whethe
Subject Public housing -- Europe, Eastern
Housing policy -- Europe, Eastern
Housing policy
Public housing
Social policy
SUBJECT Former communist countries -- Social policy -- Case studies
Subject Eastern Europe
Former communist countries
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Lux, Martin
Teller, Nóra
ISBN 9781136216237
1136216235