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The Housing Policy Changes and Housing Expenditures in the Czech Republic

The paper provides brief list of changes in rental and ownership housingsector during the transition in the Czech Republic. The complete analysisof housing expenditures of all Czech households as well as analysis of housingexpenditures of different social categories of households is provided.…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Family, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Změny ve spotřebních vzorcích českých domácností 1990-1999

Změny ve spotřebních vzorcích českých domácností 1990-1999

The author describes the development in household consumption in the Czech Republic during the transition. The Family Budget Survey data were used for the analyses. The author applies the anova and the linear regression models to find out the main social factors influencing the changes in consumption patterns. In the final part the main consumption indicators of sustainable development are mentioned.…

Topics: Wages and Incomes, Family, Transformation

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Finanční dostupnost bydlení v ČR a zemích EU

The study describes the development in financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic and EU countries. The affordability is analysed for all tenures: rental housing, co-operative housing and home-ownership. Using econometric models it evaluates the consequences of potential rental housing reform on both the housing market and financial affordability of all groups of households.…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Wages and Incomes, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Spokojenost českých občanů s bydlením

The paper analyses the main factors underlying housing satisfaction in the Czech Republic. The data from the Housing Attitudes 2001 survey are used and the author apply linear, ordinal and logistic regression models.…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Housing Policy: an End or a New Beginning

Housing Policy: an End or a New Beginning

Housing is not a simple category that can be viewed from a single perspective. On one hand, housing is one of the basic human needs and the right to adequate housing has been classified as a basic human right. On the other hand, housing constitutes a special type of private property, traded on the market. Studies from six countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, Poland and Slovakia) that make up this volume describe the different patterns of privatisation during the past decade and give an assess…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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'Social' Rental Housing in the Czech Republic Now and Tomorrow

The chapter describes the development of former state rental housing and analyses the possibilities of introduction of social housing system in the Czech Republic. The current social consequences of rent regulation are carefully assessed and potential steps for its reform are outlined.…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Housing the Poor in the Czech Republic: Prague, Brno and Ostrava

Housing the Poor in the Czech Republic: Prague, Brno and Ostrava

The chapter identifies the main groups of households endangered by the decrease in financial affordability of housing in the Czech Republic during the transitional period. The current state-of-art of both national and local housing policies aiming to help those target groups are described and analyzed. The description is followed by the recommendation of the reform in the field of rental housing proved by the presented results of extensive policy simulations. …

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Transformation, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2002/03: Finanční dostupnost a postoje občanů

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2003/2004: Bytová politika v ČR - efektivněji a cíleněji

Standardy bydlení 2003/2004: Bytová politika v ČR - efektivněji a cíleněji

The authors aim to propose more effective design of housing subsidies in the Czech Republic. In the first part of the publication was made an attempt to assess housing shortage in the Czech Republic, next follows the comparison of first- and second generation rent control, social housing and housing allowance. The authors tried to propose the best design of second generation rent control, social housing and housing allowance for the CR. Moreover, the equilibrium rent and annual limits for rent deregulation wer…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Standardy bydlení 2004/2005: Financování bydlení a regenerace sídlišť

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Housing allowances in the Czech Republic in comparative perspective

Housing allowances in the Czech Republic in comparative perspective

The chapter describes, evaluates and compares the housing allowance in the Czech Republic with housing allowances in selected other transition countries. For the purpose of evaluation the approach of welfare economics is used. …

Topics: Housing, Economy, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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The Czech Republic

The Czech Republic

The chapter contains the description of the public housing privatization process in the Czech Republic and evaluation of management of privatized dwellings. The housing privatization is described in context of overall transition housing policy and the form of management of Homeowners Associations is demonstrated on particular case study. …

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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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

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

The book contains a description and evaluation of the housing system reform in the Czech Republic constituting part of the transition from centrally planned to market economy. It addresses two goals: to evaluate housing subsidy reforms by applying improved methods of welfare economics and, secondly, to list the main factors explaining the particular outcomes of this reform. …

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Vliv regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení na migraci za prací

Vliv regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení na migraci za prací

This article examines if regional differences in housing affordability have an impact on labour mobility. This relationship is important for understanding the sources of structural unemployment and impediments to economic growth. A time series regression analysis reveals that the impact of housing affordability on observed inter-regional migration patterns is relatively weak and this effect is concentrated among the highly educated seeking employment in the capital, Prague.…

Topics: Housing, Migration and Mobility, Wages and Incomes, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Důsledky vývoje cen bydlení na potenciální i akutní ohrožení finanční nedostupností bydlení

Důsledky vývoje cen bydlení na potenciální i akutní ohrožení finanční nedostupností bydlení

The chapter deals with an analysis of housing unaffordability in the Czech Republic from 2000 to 2009. The objective is (1) to map the types of households potentially at risk of being unable to afford housing based on analysis of incomes and housing prices (2) to map the types of households with subjective feeling of being unable to afford housing (3) to map the types of households at risk of housing unaffordadility following economic crisis (4) to map of social excluded groups.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Bydlení v regionech. Důsledky regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení

Bydlení v regionech. Důsledky regionálních rozdílů v dostupnosti bydlení

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Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Vybrané faktory poptávky po bydlení v pozadí vysokých cen bytů v Praze

Vybrané faktory poptávky po bydlení v pozadí vysokých cen bytů v Praze

This article deals first with the relative affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague compared to the situation in the Czech Republic in general. The relative position of Prague in this region is then assessed in a cross-national comparison and determined to be specific. The article’s main objective is to uncover the main demand factors behind the high prices and the low affordability of owner-occupied housing in Prague. The authors focus on factors that derive from the specific economic position of P…

Topics: Housing, Economy, City and Village

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Local and regional studies

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Moderní nástroje sociálního bydlení pro mladé rodiny jako nepřímá podpora růstu porodnosti

Moderní nástroje sociálního bydlení pro mladé rodiny jako nepřímá podpora růstu porodnosti

The policy paper offers theoretical framework of the relations between housing and population policy and reviews current housing policies accross european countries. The paper focuses predominanty on the rental housing sector and on young families searching for housing. The authors summarize both state-level and municipality-level policies aimed at this group. Two policies are proposed: novelization of current housing benefit and local houisng guarantee.…

Topics: Housing, Family, Social Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Dopady hospodářské krize na finanční dostupnost bydlení - analýza a možné nástroje státu

Dopady hospodářské krize na finanční dostupnost bydlení - analýza a možné nástroje státu

The policy paper deals with impacts of economic crisis and identifies households endangered by financial inaffordability, mainly due to unemployment reasons. After reviewing various international policies dealing with this problem, the authors propose two policies – the programme for the support of work related migration and a an interest-free loan for homeowners facing the risk of losing their homes.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Wages and Incomes, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Reforma bytové politiky ČR: návrh a výsledky simulací

Reforma bytové politiky ČR: návrh a výsledky simulací

The policy paper contains the proposal for structural changes of several housing policy measures in the Czech Republic. The goal of the reform is to increase policy effectiveness, efficiency, tenure neutrality and anticyclicity. The second section of paper describes the results of large-scale simulations of the reform and its impact on public expenditures and income distribution.…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Podpora dostupnosti bydlení pro lidi akutně ohrožené sociálním vyloučením - mezinárodní perspektiva a návrhy opatření v ČR

Podpora dostupnosti bydlení pro lidi akutně ohrožené sociálním vyloučením - mezinárodní perspektiva a návrhy opatření v ČR

Policy paper deals with an analysis of housing affordability and availability for social excluded in the Czech Republic based on the case studies and the experiences of non-profit organisations. Good practices and possible strategies to combat housing exclusion using in foreign countries are discussed in the paper. The objective of the paper is to propose tools directed to increase availability and affordability of housing for people at risk of social exclusion in the Czech republic.…

Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Souvislost mezi regionálními rozdíly ve finanční dostupnosti bydlení a rozdíly v ekonomické výkonnosti regionů ČR

Souvislost mezi regionálními rozdíly ve finanční dostupnosti bydlení a rozdíly v ekonomické výkonnosti regionů ČR

The goal of the chapter is to present the conclusions from the statistical analysis of associations between the trends in regional differences in financial affordability of housing and trends in economic performance of regions in the Czech Republic.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Regionální rozdíly ve finanční dostupnosti nájemního bydlení mezi roky 2000-2006

Regionální rozdíly ve finanční dostupnosti nájemního bydlení mezi roky 2000-2006

The goal of the chapter was to describe the trends in regional differences in the rental housing affordability for different types and clusters of households in the Czech Republic between 2000 and 2006, and to summarize the main socio-economic consequences of this development.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Regionální rozdíly v dostupnosti bydlení v České republice

Regionální rozdíly v dostupnosti bydlení v České republice

The book presents the results of analyses of trends in regional differences both in affordability and availability of housing and their causes in between 2000 and 2006 in the Czech Republic. The housing affordability analysis uses new original methodology of measurement. In the field of housing availability the authors recommend the radical change of perspective used for its evaluation and methodological changes for the next census.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Regions, Standard of Living

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Návrh úprav vybraných nástrojů bytové politiky v ČR

Návrh úprav vybraných nástrojů bytové politiky v ČR

Main goal of the chapter is to find out, how could be selected housing policy tools adjusted (or altered) to meet following criteria: anti-cyclical behaviour, tenure neutrality, wealth redistribution towards households (or individuals) in need. The authors focused on following tools: property tax, housing allowance and tax relief.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Social Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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