The objective of the project is to make a comprehensive, theoretically framed, and empirically grounded, context-based description of the transformation of housing conditions in the CR after 1990, including both the identification of the main causes of this development and an analysis of its effects on social inequalities and market risks. In the area of inequalities the project focuses on housing affordability, the residential property distribution, access to housing, and extreme forms of inequalities (social exclusion). In the area of market risks the project focuses on risks arising from the growth in the level of homeownership, the mortgage market development, and the "manipulation" of housing demand. The goal is also to evaluate current tools of state housing and monetary policy, whether they effectively limit the growth of social inequalities that are a threat to sustainable economic development and social cohesion, whether they limit the growth of market system risks, and to make general recommendations for changes in this fields.
The project is supported by the Grant agency of the Czech Republic, the head of the project is Ing. Mgr. Martin Lux, Ph.D. The project started in 2009 and ends in 2011. Read more...
Project publications (total 39, displaying 11 - 20)
Monografie Standardy bydlení 2010/2011 je již pátou v řadě monografií se stejným názvem, ale různým vročením, vydaných Sociologickým ústavem AV ČR, v.v.i.; předcházející monografie byly vydány v letech 2003, 2004, 2005 a 2008.
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In situation, when Czech government is not willing and has not sufficient financial means for building cost-based social rental housing, the future of rental housing in the Czech Republic is necessarily connected with private rental housing. The chapter includes description of history of private rental housing and focuses on following questions. What is contemporary status of private rental housing in the CR? Is there a chance that it would become alternative to owner-occupied housing?
The chapter describes and evaluates the progress in social housing in post-socialist transition states, especially from the perspective of social landlords.
First, the article sets out to determine whether significant differentiation of housing consumption occurred and social stratification became linked to stratification by housing consumption. Second, in relation to these findings on stratification, Czech households were segmented into 12 segments. The article then makes some general prognoses for each household segment regarding the number of households in selected tenures development for 2020.
Chapter is focused on three research questions: (1) Why was part of the housing stock in the Czech Republic restituted and why it happened in the form of natural restitution instead of financial compensation? (2) Why was preserved conservative rent control and quasi-ownership of housing even for restituted flats? (3) What were the consequences of property restitution on perceptions towards private rental housing, private landlords and their tenants in the Czech Republic?
The chapter describes and evaluates the rent setting and rent regulation in post-socialist transition countries; and development of new demand-side subsidies.
Chapter answers following research questions: (1) Whether the development of regional disparities in housing affordability accords with the theory of convergence or the theory of divergence or it does not correspond to any of these theories. (2) What was the number of household’s types threatened by housing unaffordability and potential social exclusion in the Czech regions?
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The aim of the article is to map the trend of one of dimensions of social inequalities in the consumption of housing - the trend of regional inequalities in housing affordability in the Czech Republic in the period 2000 - 2006. Due to the lack of relevant data file(s) on household incomes
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