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Classes and Castles: Impact of Social Stratification on Housing Inequality in Post-Socialist States

Housing conditions form an important part of social stratification in many advanced industrial economies. The objective of this article is to determine the extent to which social stratification is linked to housing inequalities in the post-socialist Czech Republic and how this relationship has evolved during the course of the economic transformation process.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Social Inequalities, Transformation

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Decline and depression: the impact of the global economic crisis on housing markets in two post-socialist states

The goal of this paper is to outline the main factors influencing the diverse consequences of the global economic crisis on housing and mortgage markets in two post-socialist economies—the Czech Republic and Hungary. In the former there was a mild decline of markets while in the latter there has been a depression of markets. The paper also contributes to the convergence and divergence debate on housing policies in Europe.…

Topics: Housing, Economy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Zajištění potřeb seniorů s důrazem na roli nestátního sektoru

Zajištění potřeb seniorů s důrazem na roli nestátního sektoru

The text gives an overview of the current situation in the field of social services for older people with an emphasis on the fragile elderly provided by nongovernmental, not-for-profit bodies. The report has three main parts linked by the concept of needs. The first part of the report provides a comprehensive overview of the ageing of the Czech population and its impact on the present and future needs of social care services. The second part summarises the concept of needs and their specific forms in old age f…

Topics: Civil Society, Care, Age and Aging, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Regionální disparity ve finanční dostupnosti nájemního bydlení

The paper addresses an analysis of regional disparities in rental housing affordability in the Czech Republic. In the paper, the issue of measuring housing affordability and the lack of relevant data set(s) are discussed. Additionally, the paper shows selected results of analysis of regional disparities in rental housing affordability in the period 2000 – 2006. The aim of the paper is to discover whether the disparities have been growing or shrinking among regions and among different types of households.…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Regions, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Regional Differences in Rental Housing (Un)affordability following the Rent Deregulation in the Czech Republic

The paper focuses on the development of regional inequalities in rental housing (un)affordability in Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to identify "model" types of household which are potentially at risk of being unable to afford "adequate" housing in case of no regulation. The development of regional differences in housing "unaffordability" in the period 2000-2007 is analysed.…

Topics: Housing, Regions, Social Inequalities, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Finanční (ne)dostupnost vlastnického bydlení v ČR

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes, Social Inequalities

Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Public event or educational activity

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Regionální disparity ve finanční dostupnosti nájemního bydlení v letech 2000 - 2006

The paper focuses on the development of rental housing affordability in regions of the Czech republic in the period 2000-2006. The aim of the paper is to discover whether the disparities have been growing or shrinking among regions and among different types of households.…

Topics: Housing, Regions

Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Socio-Economic Research on Housing in the Czech Republic

The article presents a review of the research activities of the Socio-Economics of Housing research team at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic. Its main research activities relate to both the social and the economic aspects of housing and thus include such diverse topics as housing attitudes, housing policy, housing finance and housing market efficiency. …

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Published review

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Participace nájemníků a sociální aspekty regenerace panelových sídlišť

The article aims to explain the term "participation", its content and meaning, different ways of participation. Potential assets of participation, reasons for the involvement of tenants in participation process are described. According to the extent of tenants empowerment could be distinguished different levels of participation, which were described. In addition, tools of participation and phases of participation in a refurbishment project are mentioned.…

Topics: Housing, Civil Society

Publication Type: Chapter in Conference Proceedings

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Adresný příspěvek na nájemné v prostředí České republiky: komparace vybraných modelů

The first part of the study forms the description of housing allowance systems in selected EU countries. A greater burden of rent expenditure by households and higher regional differentiation in rent prices could be expected in the Czech Republic since 1.1.2002. The present system of housing subsidy in the Czech Republic is not able to respect this differentiation, therefore the attention is paid to the comparison of two selected models of rent allowances, which could be applicable in the Czech conditins.…

Topics: Housing, Regions, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Dráhy bydlení v ČR 1960-2001. Minulá, současná a budoucí stěhování občanů ČR ve výzkumu postojů k bydlení

The theoretical part of the study explains basic approaches from the field of housing careers. The analytic part of the study is based on an observation of the personal housing histories, in the period between 1960 and 2001, of Czech citizens, who were respondents in the Housing Attitudes in the Czech Republic 2001 survey. A comparison of the behaviour in the age 14 - 24 age cohort of respondents from various age categories made it possible to formulate a hypothesis on the homogeneity of the early phases of th…

Topics: Housing, Migration and Mobility

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Makroekonomie bydlení

The study deals with the fluctuation in housing construction in connection with the economic oscillation. Some of the stock-flow models are also described. Stock-flow models explain the dependence of changes in volumes of housing stock with regard to changes in some macroeconomics indicators (for example interest rates, inflation etc.). The next part of the study aims on relationships between consumption behavior of households in housing, down-payment limits on the mortgage market and monetary policy of the ce…

Topics: Housing, Economy

Publication Type: Professional Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Publication Type: Non-peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Současná a budoucí podoba příspěvku na bydlení v České republice

The article examines housing allowance models as an important tool of social and housing policies, used as such in most EU countries. Some drawbacks of the current system are mentioned, especially the fact that the real housing costs, as paid by households, are disregarded in the calculation, thus endangering the social justice of such housing allowance model. In this respect, a draft of a new concept of rent allowance is outlined. Based on the results of simulation models, contrived by experts of the Czech Ac…

Topics: Housing, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Efektivnost vybraných nástrojů bytové politiky v České republice

The article begins by citing selected examples of state intervention inthe area of housing in the Czech Republic, which dates back to the founding ofthe First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, and a brief description is provided ofthe most important milestones in the evolution of housing policy since 1989. Thesecond part of the article is devoted to empirically testing the effectiveness of se-lected housing subsidies applied in the Czech Republic at the end of the 1990s.Housing affordability declined after 1989 a…

Topics: Housing, Public Policy

Publication Type: Article with impact factor

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Stěhování českých domácností za pracovními příležitostmi a trh s bydlením na regionální úrovni

The aim of the article is to highlight the connection between the labour and housing markets, focused on the barriers potentially obstructing the labour migration. Negative influence of growing share of owner-occupied housing on willingness to move was documented for the Czech Republic. The regional differences in housing affordability are another factor which poses barrier for labour migration, especially for individuals/households of lower qualifications.…

Topics: Housing, Migration and Mobility, Work, Regions

Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Bydlení v ČR - představy a ekonomická realita

Bydlení v ČR - představy a ekonomická realita

This paper deals primarily with the problem of the accessibility of housing in the Czech Republic. On the basis of data drawn from the study on Attitudes to Housing in the Czech Republic 2001, the satisfaction of the Czech population with current housing is assessed. The second part of the paper focuses on an evaluation of housing accessibility in the Czech Republic. Physical accessibility is compared with the situation in other selected countries. The financial accessibility of privately owned housing is dete…

Topics: Housing, Wages and Incomes

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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Nájemní bydlení v ČR

Nájemní bydlení v ČR

In the chapter are described different forms of rent applied in the Czech Republic, the chapter contains comparison of the structure of housing stock in the Czech Republic with the structure of housing stock in other EU countries, description of possible future form of second generation rent control and possible future form of housing allowance.…

Topics: Housing, European Union, Social Policy, Public Policy

Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph

Department: Socioeconomics of Housing

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