Housing policy and housing finance in the Czech Republic during transition : an example of the schism between the still-living past and the need of reform / Martin Lux.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lux, Martin.

Series:

• Sustainable urban areas ; 28.
• Sustainable urban areas, 1574-6410 ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Housing--Czech Republic.
• Housing policy--Czech Republic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Netherlands : Delft University of Technology, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains the description and evaluation of a profound housing system reform constituting part of the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy in the Czech Republic. It addresses two goals: to evaluate housing subsidies (reforms) by application of improved methods of welfare economics and, secondly, to list the main factors explaining the particular outcomes of selected reforms. The author applied methods of welfare economics for an evaluation of housing subsidies in a scale unique in housing studies. The analysis of underlying factors influencing formation of housing reforms brought new findings about the essence of transition in post-socialist countries.

Contents:

• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Meaning of 'transition'
• The goal of the book
• Preliminary questions
• Theoretical and methodological framework
• Theories on housing systems' development
• Inspiration in comparative housing studies
• What theoretical framework to choose?
• Theories on the role of the state in the field of housing consumption
• Economic perspective
• Social perspective
• State as 'rational economist' and 'understanding paternalist'
• Why do states intervene as 'understanding paternalists'?
• Methodology of assessment of the role of the state in the field of housing consumption
• Public interventions in the field of housing consumption - hypothetical cases
• Public interventions in the field of housing consumption - practical cases
• The methodology of assessment of housing subsidies: the concept of efficiency and effectiveness
• Methodological discussion on international comparison of housing systems
• Case of misunderstanding - 'social' housing in transition countries
• Methodological imperative - individual openness of researchers in comparative studies
• Research questions
• Outline of the book
• Housing policies and housing finance during transition in selected transition countries - Partial international comparison
• Privatisation of public housing and tenure changes
• Supply-side subsidies
• Supply-side subsidies: the case of Poland
• Demand-side subsidies
• Subsidies and role of the state in homeownership sector
• Subsidies to promote homeownership: the case of Hungary
• Was anything shared among transitional countries?
• Housing conditions, housing policy and housing affordability in the Czech Republic during the transition
• Political and institutional context
• Economic context
• Social policy
• Demographics
• Immigration.
• Housing conditions and housing policy
• Housing policy between 1918-1948
• Housing policy between 1948 and 1989
• Housing policy between 1989 and 2005
• Housing conditions
• Tenure changes
• Subsidies to promote homeownership
• Housing finance
• Housing affordability
• General problems connected with measuring housing affordability
• The methodology of measuring the affordability of housing in the Czech Republic
• The affordability of rental housing in the 'privileged' housing sector between 1991 and 2003
• The affordability of rental housing in the 'unprivileged' housing sector (2002)
• The affordability of owner-occupied housing in the 'privileged' housing sector (1991-2003)
• The affordability of owner-occupied housing in the 'unprivileged' housing sector (2002)
• Comparison and conclusions
• Effectiveness and efficiency of housing policy in the Czech Republic
• Effectiveness
• Economic subsidy from rent regulation
• Economic subsidy from public housing privatisation
• Housing allowance
• 'Social' housing subsidies
• Tax relief
• State premium to housing savings scheme
• Conclusion
• Efficiency
• Data and methodology
• Conclusions and sensitivity analysis
• Housing allowances
• Tax subsidy
• Conclusions
• Efficiency and effectiveness of new supply and demand-side subsidies in transition countries
• Analysis and criteria used for comparison of housing policies
• Evaluation and conclusions
• Efficiency and effectiveness of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic - Conclusions from housing system analysis
• Context analysis
• Policy recommendations
• Summary and conclusions
• Main topic and goals
• Theoretical and methodological background
• Research questions and main findings.
• The wider context of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic
• Evaluation of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic
• Partial evaluation of housing subsidies in other transition countries
• Other factors of low effectiveness and efficiency of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic
• Policy recommendations for higher effectiveness/efficiency of housing subsidies
• Appendix A. Public housing policy and instruments
• Appendix B. Programmes to meet the social objectives of housing policies
• Appendix C. Optimisation programme on public housing construction costs
• References
• Summary
• Samenvatting
• Curriculum vitae.

Notes:

• Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Technical University of Delft, 2009.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270).

ISBN:

• 6612880384
• 1-282-88038-1
• 9786612880384
• 1-60750-593-2

OCLC:

676698318