The Role of Housing Policy in the Transformation Process of Central-East European Cities

Pichler-Milanovich, Natasha

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“…In many East European countries, housing subsidies were often between three and five per cent of GNP. Apart from food, housing was the most important target of consumer subsidy (Hegediis et al, 1996;Pichler-Milanovic, 1994). This type of state intervention kept residential mobility low.…”

Section: Changes On the Housing Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

The process of suburbanization in the agglomeration of Budapest

Kok¹,

Kovács²

1999

Neth J of Housing and the Built Environment

124

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Section: Changes On the Housing Marketmentioning

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The process of suburbanization in the agglomeration of Budapest

Kok¹,

Kovács²

1999

Neth J of Housing and the Built Environment

124

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“…Rather, the focus of research has been on new and spatially highly visible urban phenomena, most importantly on suburbanisation (Brown & Schafft, 2002;Kupiszewski et al, 1998;Ouředníček, 2007) and inner-city change (Feldman, 2000;Kiss, 2002;Temelova, 2007). Yet the 1990s also brought disrupting changes to the existing housing stock, first by transforming most of the tenants into owners in many formerly centrally planned countries, and second by substituting the market distribution of housing for the central housing allocation system (Clapham, 1995;Marcuse, 1996;Pichler-Milanovich, 1994;Struyk, 1996). These changes call for research on the existing housing stock, including panel housing.…”

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Soviet Prefabricated Panel Housing Estates: Areas of Continued Social Mix or Decline? The Case of Tallinn

Kährik

Tammaru

2010

Housing Studies

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Cities in the formerly centrally planned countries in the Soviet Union and Central Eastern Europe have transformed rapidly since the political and economic restructuring started in the late 1980s. To date, the main focus of research has been on new urban phenomena, particularly inner-city change and suburbanisation. However, these changes affect only a minority of the population, because most people still live in pre-transition housing stock. This study clarifies population changes in the most distinctive type of housing in the state socialist cities, high-rise prefabricated panel housing estates, in the light of the reform of housing privatisation. Many researchers have assumed that panel housing estates would quickly downgrade in the course of transition towards a market economy. However, the main results of the study show that these areas have maintained a relatively good image and social mix to the present day and that there are no straightforward signs of their socio-economic downgrading or becoming ethnic minority ghettos.

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“…While any of these would qualify, my research benefited from local knowledge as Pitesti is the city I lived and worked in for 15 years (Figure 4). While it can be argued that Pitesti was a typical 'socialist city', more cautious claims of convergence can be inferred regarding post-communist trajectories (Pichler-Milanovich, 1994); nonetheless, appropriation of over the national average of foreign direct investment positioned Pitesti among the allegedly 'successful' cities in the national urban network (Benedek, 2006). respondents were interviewed in-depth regarding their housing behaviour and attitudes; meanings attached to home and family, neighbourhood and community; their opinions about participatory culture, social and institutional trust.…”

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Strategies forInSituHome Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates

Soaita

2012

Housing Studies

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Socio-economic and physical change has visibly affected post-socialist cities, yet the state of decay of their inherited large housing estates has only deepened throughout the 1990s, despite of the change in tenure through IntroductionUnder the macro-economic constraints of post-communist restructuring since 1989, Eastern European governments have launched neo-liberal policies of large scale housing privatisation and overall state retreat from housing provision. Consequently, owner-occupation has reached over 93 percent of the housing stock in most Eastern European countries, and in Romanian large housing estates it has surpassed 99 percent (NIS, 2005). The state of decay of these estates has deepened throughout the 1990s. In order to take on their new responsibilities, flat-owners were challenged from two major directions. First, a comprehensive regulatory framework able to sustain a market-driven housing system, including condominium management, was until recently non-existent. documented (Hardin & Baden, 1977;Olson, 1971;Ostrom, 1990), this was likely to spur dilemmas of collective action and thus, asset degradation. Second, the macro-economic reforms of transition, global economic change and laissez-faire state policies throughout the 1990s have engendered an affordability crisis affecting both access to housing and the running costs of utilities and repairs. Whose housing problems?Besides the politico-economic rationale of early post-communist reforms, it was nonetheless hoped that decentralization and housing privatisation would stimulate local actors to improve housing quality and availability. In particular, households would begin to address the deferred maintenance problems of their newly privatized dwellings whereas local governments would engage in the delivery of housing services and assist social housing needs. This challenge of shaping new roles and attitudes among housing actors requires a discussion of the concept of ownership and its bundle of collective rights, which are prone to social dilemmas. The social contract of ownershipBroadly speaking, the paradigmatic change experienced by Eastern Europe has been twice engineered through the mechanism of property rights. Prior communist policies of nationalisation were reversed by post-communist policies of privatisation and restitution,

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The Role of Housing Policy in the Transformation Process of Central-East European Cities

Cited by 41 publications

References 12 publications

The process of suburbanization in the agglomeration of Budapest

The process of suburbanization in the agglomeration of Budapest

Soviet Prefabricated Panel Housing Estates: Areas of Continued Social Mix or Decline? The Case of Tallinn

Strategies forInSituHome Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates

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