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Impact of weak substitution between owning and renting a dwelling on housing market
According to economic theory, an economically rational market agent searching for permanent housing in a particular stage in his/her life cycle should base his/her tenure considerations also by comparing rent to the user costs of homeownership, and among flats with otherwise identical housing services and security will select the cheaper of two alternative tenures. Economic theory perceives rental and owner-occupied housing as ‘communicating vessels’—a change in conditions in one necessarily entails chan…
Topics: Housing
Rovní v příjmech, nerovní v majetku? Nerovnosti ve vlastnickém bydlení v ČR
This article focuses on the problem of wealth inequalities as an as yet overlooked axis of social inequalities in the Czech Republic. Wealth inequalities and their development over time are measured here on the basis of the value of the real estate (a flat or house) in which the household lives. The value of household real estate has grown significantly in recent decades in the Czech Republic and Czechs still favour owner-occupied housing over other forms of housing tenure. Households whose parents were also …
Topics: Housing
Reasoning behind choices: rationality and social norms in the housing market behaviour of first-time buyers in the Czech Republic
We focus on the role of within-family socialisation and the relationship between socialisation and resource transfers in the intergenerational transmission of housing preferences, the formation of familial housing attitudes and thus the reproduction of a normative housing tenure ladder across generations in Czech society. We show that resource transfers and the within-family socialisation of housing preferences, including preferences concerning housing tenure, are closely interconnected. In other words, parent…
Topics: Housing
Housing restitution policies among post-socialist countries: explaining divergence
The purpose of this paper is to explain why post-socialist countries adopted different housing restitution strategies after the change of regimes across the region. Restitution refers here to the process of returning property or compensating for property expropriated by the communist regime to its previous owners or their descendants. This paper provides a brief overview, assessment and categorisation of housing property restitution policies using a sample of 14 post-socialist countries, but it primarily aims …
Topics: Housing
Pražská panelová sídliště jako místa protikladů
Pražská panelová sídliště jsou místa, kde se protíná mnoho protikladů: na jednu stranu jsou ceněna pro to, že zajistila praktické a relativně málo nákladné bydlení pro velký počet obyvatel, na druhou stranu byla často kritizována pro mnoho dílčích nedostatků i pro svůj celkový urbanistický koncept. Pro své obyvatele se mohou zdát jako místa, která se příliš nemění, místa, která jsou v jistém smyslu známá a obyčejná. Tato zdánlivá neměnnost se projevuje předevš…
Topics: Housing
Financializace bydlení. Když se z domova stává investice.
The chapter discusses the structural and cultural aspects of housing financialization and points to its negative effects as related mostly to the private rental housing. It also focuses on the mode of collective protection and resistance against its negative impacts on citizens.…
Topics: Housing
Svépomocné bydlení v době pozdního státního socialismu: responsibilizace, ideologie a beton
Self-help housing has been proposed as a solution to provide qualitatively adequate and affordable housing not only nowadays, but also during the late state socialism in the 1970s and 1980s in the for- mer Czechoslovakia. In this article, we focus on how the self-help housing provision was during that era linked with the responsibilisation of households, a technique of governance usually associated with neoliberal regimes. On the case of self-help housing construction in town Myjava, which was supported by l…
Topics: Housing, Intergenerational Relations
The pace of “the good life”: Connecting past, present, and future in the context of a housing affordability crisis
This article focuses on the topic of the young adult’s cleft habitus influenced by a housing affordability crisis in the Czech Republic and examines how this situation affects the young adult’s relation to the imagination of a temporally structured life course and synchronization of life spheres (housing, family, and work). This article is based on qualitative in-depth interviews conducted in the four cities most affected by the house and rent price increase. The general question addresses if and how soc…
Topics: Housing, Intergenerational Relations, Social Inequalities
Kutilství: Od „udělej si sám“ po DIY
The book Bricolage: From “self-led manual projects” to DIY connects bricolage (kutilství) with broad questions regarding today´s society, its development and change. It treats bricolage as a topic and research terrain that allows us to shed new light on these issues. The book shows what makes bricolage interesting for social sciences not (just) per se but as a means to understanding today´s pressing issues. Its chapters focus on individual fields of research interest showing how bricolage can help to im…
Topics: Housing, Lifestyle
Kutilství... DIY
Kutilství jako svépomocná tvorba nejběžnějších praktických, nejrůznějších dekorativních i neobvyklých specializovaných předmětů představuje nedílnou součást moderní společnosti. Když se pozorně rozhlédneme, nalezneme stopy kutilství všude kolem nás, v domácnostech, na zahradách i ve veřejném prostoru. Kutilství má mnoho podob a patří do něj nejrůznější manuální výrobní činnosti, které mohou z řady důvodů vykonávat v různých situacích různí lidé s růz…
Topics: Culture, Lifestyle
Rytmy budování a péče / Geografie ‚zahrádkářů a zahrádkářek
Exploring a history of one Prague allotments, the chapter explores everyday experience of allotment gardening, its everyday properties and the ways in which it is rhythmed.…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Environment
Zahrádkové osady jako prostor soukromý, veřejný, nebo jiný? O neoliberalizaci správy městského prostoru
The chapter draws on an example of the negotiation of the fate of urban gardening in allotments in post-socialist Prague in order to question the public-private dichotomy and argues that urban spaces need to be understood and managed as a hybrid space.…
Topics: Housing, City and Village
Socialistické průmyslové město ve fotografii: dva pohledy na proměny ideologické konstrukce
The study discusses the image of the city of Ostrava in photographic publications issued in the period of state socialism and aimed to capture and present the daily life of an exemplary industrial socialist city. The study offers a critical understanding of the socialist city as a visual construct communicating the ideological contents and reflecting their (historical) transformations, based on the example of the two key themes of visual representation – the urban space and the role of men and women in this …
Topics: Gender, Culture, Environment
Publication Type: Chapter in a Book / Monograph
Domov jako konceptuální rámec, téma i výzkumný terén: vývoj i současná podoba studií domova
Over the past thirty years there has been a substantial change in how home is understood in the social sciences. While it is still possible to discern the influence of phenomenology on contemporary thinking about home, the studies presently at the forefront of the geography, anthropology, and sociology of home largely reflect the impact of critical social theory and the cultural and spatial turn in the social sciences, and they have also made the lines between these disciplines blurrier. This article primarily…
Topics: Housing
The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis: An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening
In this article we explore how nature becomes part of the city through the example of allotment gardening in the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague allotments were established based on an ongoing political‐ecological process of urbanization of nature that was locally driven by socialist (from 1948 to 1989) and later neoliberal governance. We employ a situated urban political ecology (UPE) approach to analyse changes in the planning of allotments and the impact thereof on the experience of gardener…
Topics: City and Village
Between roots and rhizomes: Towards a post-phenomenology of home
Humanistic and phenomenological scholarship has long tended to regard home as a fundamental place of existential and experiential stability. In recent times, the notion of home has been critically re‐examined, however, and home is now regarded as a more complex and multi‐faceted phenomenon. Drawing on interviews with prospective buyers in two cities of the Czech Republic, I explore the complexity of home and pay particular attention to the internal tensions and paradoxes of home as imagined by people buyin…
Topics: Housing
Subjektivní zdraví a jeho sociálně-prostorová podmíněnost: případová studie bydlení seniorské populace města Brna
Procesy demografického stárnutí obyvatelstva a jejich dopady na společenský a ekonomický rozvoj patří v současnosti k nejvíce frekventovaným tématům v sociálních i ekonomických vědách. Koncept aktivního a zdravého stárnutí představuje v kontextu seniorské populace a jejich specifických potřeb ústřední rozvojovou strategii. Článek se proto věnuje zhodnocení subjektivního zdravotního stavu seniorské populace žijící ve městě Brno, a to v komparativním pohledu se seniory z…
Topics: Housing, Public health
Spokojenost s bydlením v České republice – výsledky šetření 2001 a 2013
Článek se zaměřuje na zhodnocení spokojenosti s bydlením a její vývoj v České republice v období po roce 2000. Cílem je identifikovat faktory ovlivňující rozdílnou úroveň spokojenosti s bydlením u jednotlivých skupin obyvatelstva, a přispět tak k lepšímu pochopení procesů na pozadí tohoto jevu. V komparativní perspektivě průřezových let 2001 a 2013 se autoři věnují prezentaci hlavních zjištění vyplývajících ze dvou na sebe navazujících vln kvantitativního sociologic…
Topics: Housing
Je český „člověk panelákový“ ohroženým druhem?
Podle výsledků Sčítání lidu z roku 2011 žije zhruba čtvrtina české populace v domech postavených panelovou technologií. Ještě v roce 2001 přitom žilo v panelácích téměř 31 % lidí. Může být úbytek lidí žijících v Česku v panelácích způsoben „mediální masáží“ podobně jako v bývalém východním Německu? S opatrností lze konstatovat, že český člověk panelákový se zatím ohroženým druhem nestává a jeho vyhynutí v nejbližších letech nehrozí.Census 2011 …
Topics: Housing
Post-Socialist Housing Systems in Europe: Housing Welfare Regimes by Default?
This article develops a conceptual framework derived from welfare regime and concomitant literatures to interpret housing reform in post-socialist European countries. In it, settled power structures and collective ideologies are necessary prerequisites for the creation of distinctive housing welfare regimes with clear roles for the state, market and households. Although the defining feature of post-socialist housing has been mass-privatisation to create super-homeownership societies, the emphatic retreat of th…
Topics: Housing, Social Policy
Who actually decides? Parental influence on the housing tenure choice of their children
We focus on the role of within-family socialisation and the relationship between socialisation and resource transfers in the intergenerational transmission of housing preferences, the formation of familial housing attitudes and thus the reproduction of a normative housing tenure ladder across generations in Czech society. We show that resource transfers and the within-family socialisation of housing preferences, including preferences concerning housing tenure, are closely interconnected. In other words, parent…
Topics: Housing, Interpersonal Relations
Subjective perception versus objective indicators of overcrowding and housing affordability
This article seeks to evaluate indicators of overcrowding and housing affordability used by Eurostat and to propose alternatives that may better reflect the specific contexts of individual EU states while preserving the possibility of valuable international comparison. The alternatives are assessed on the basis of the distance between the results produced by objective measures and the subjective evaluations of the problem reported by households, using one and the same data source: EU-SILC. The results show tha…
Topics: Housing
Milestones in housing finance in the Czech Republic
The chapter describes and analyses the main trends and milestones in development of market-based housing finance system in the Czech Republic. Special attention is paid to the impact of Global Financial Crisis on housing finance models and to the future prospects of mortgage market.…
Topics: Housing, Economy
Editorship of the book Private rental housing in transition countries: an alternative to owner occupation?
The book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries – a topic scarcely researched to date. Part I presents the private rental sector in Western and Northern European countries, the history of private renting under socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and thematic issues such as property restitution and marginalized groups depending on privately rented housing. Part II provides a series of country case studies. Part III concludes with cha…
Topics: Housing
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