ROMEA EXTRA Newsletter: How to get affordable and quality social housing? Comparing the situation in the Czech Republic and other EU countries
07 June 2023
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The Covid-19 pandemic, the rise in prices of energy, food, goods and services fuelling high inflation, and the war in Ukraine – all have widened the gap between rich and poor. While even members of the existing middle class are increasingly under strain, the weakest are hit hardest.
Passing a law on social housing would go far towards solving this existential problem. While many suggest that one solution to the housing crisis is to build new units, affordability remains a major problem. Other solutions are possible, among…
The author is an anthropologist, researcher and analyst from the Ústí nad Labem region, author of the analysis Where to Place Social Housing? Analysis of the ideal number of social housing in a municipality and a house: foreign experience and transferability of good practice to the Czech Republic.
