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Property restitution after 1990
Property restitution is the process in which property expropriated by communist regime was returned to the previous owners or their descendants. This chapter seeks to explain the differences between the housing restitution strategies adopted by post-socialist countries, to present in-depth case studies in four countries, and to discuss the impact of property restitution on the development of the private rental sector in these countries. Explanations for differences between approaches to housing property restit…
Topics: Housing
Poor and vulnerable households in private renting.
This chapter demonstrates that market (private) tenants differ from the rest of the population in almost all former post-socialist EU member states by their lower age and higher odds of being unemployed. However, in most countries in the sample the majority of most poor and vulnerable households tend to be homeowners or public tenants rather than tenants in private rental housing. When dwellings are offered by the private sector as rentable housing for the poor, they are often of substandard quality and locate…
Topics: Housing
Czech Republic: growth and proffesionalisation
The chapter describes the main milestones on the path of private renting growth in the Czech Republic after 1990 and a snapshot analysis of the status of the private rental sector today. The goal of this chapter is to show that specific interventions and regulations, often short-term in nature (such as property restitution, rent regulation or public housing privatization), had a significant impact on the long-term meaning of private renting in the Czech Republic, i.e. on its size, operation and affordability b…
Topics: Housing
Central and East European housing regimes in the light of private renting
The chapter provides an overview of the development of the private rental sector in post-socialist countries and the authors discuss the future convergent or divergent trends in East European housing regimes. As concluding chapter it sets out to further the housing policy debate on European housing regimes.…
Topics: Housing
Reasoning behind choices: rationality and social norms in the housing market behaviour of first-time buyers in the Czech Republic
The main objective of this paper is to draw attention to the influence of social norms on housing market behaviour. The research is based on an in-depth qualitative study of first-time buyers in the Czech Republic. We found systemic deviations from economically rational behaviour (as defined by mainstream housing economic theory) that stem from the influence of a dominant housing social norm about what constitutes the ‘right’ housing tenure. We show how the influence of a social norm constrains financial, …
Topics: Housing
Application of Agent-based Modelling for Estimation of Norm-based Dynamics of Housing Systems
Housing systems are mainly defined by the housing tenure structure in a particular society. We assume that choice of housing tenure is determined by economic factors, the life course and social interactions that reproduce and/or weaken the social norm that deems one housing tenure – homeownership – is superior to another housing tenure – renting. By applying agent-based modelling, we show that strong adherence to the social norm (and the transmission of this norm across generations within the family) may…
Topics: Housing
Social housing in the Czech Republic: the change of a trend?
The goal of this paper is (1) to describe the history and the most recent development of the social housing system in the Czech Republic and (2) to critically assess earlier and recent attempts to solve the lack of a social housing strategy in this country. In general, the paper is meant to contribute to the literature on the housing policy formulation in countries in transition, from planning to market economy, and thus provide an insight into the main factors that may explain unsustainability and the weaknes…
Topics: Housing, Social Policy
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, Politics and Political Attitudes, Public Policy
Rovní v příjmech, nerovní v majetku? Nerovnosti ve vlastnickém bydlení v ČR.
Stať je věnována problematice majetkových nerovností jako doposud v České republice spíše opomíjené ose sociálních nerovností. Majetkové nerovnosti a jejich vývoj v čase jsou v tomto textu měřeny na základě hodnoty nemovitého majetku (bytu či domu), v němž domácnost žije. Hodnota nemovitého majetku domácností v ČR v uplynulých desetiletích významně vzrostla, kromě toho Češi stále více upřednostňují vlastnické bydlení na úkor jiných forem právního důvodu užív…
Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities
Kutilství: drobná mozaika svépomocné tvorby
Even though the DIY movement is starting to garner more attention from scholars abroad, it has yet to receive much attention from Czech scholars. The book DIY: a fine mosaic of self-led making represents an effort to bridge that gap at least in part, and to offer the first comprehensive view of DIY (kutilství in Czech) as an intriguing phenomenon that is practiced extensively and which has a distinct history and vibrant presence. Thus, this book is the first complex attempt at defining what DIY is in the Czec…
Topics: Housing, Lifestyle
Svépomoc v bydlení: minulost! / budoucnost...?
V posledních letech se stále častěji ozývá, že bydlení je finančně nedostupné že především ve velkých městech rostou ceny bytů a domů a zvyšuje se nájemné. Co dál? Jak tuto situaci řešit? Jednou z cest, byť rozhodně ne všespásnou, může být bydlení řešené svépomocí. Autoři brožury Svépomoc v bydlení: minulost! / budoucnost...? představují historické podoby svépomocného bydlení z období 70. a 80. let 20. století, kdy bylo trpěnou praxí, která sice nekorespo…
Topics: Housing
Staying in a fallout shelter: exploring ostalgia through post-socialist heterotopia.
This article details our attempts at making sense of an ostalgic heterotopic space. We relay here our analysis of staying in and exploring a disused air raid shelter built during WWII, converted into a fallout shelter at the beginning of the Cold War and recently repurposed in an anti-communist museum/tourist hotel/ostalgic canteen called 10Z Bunker. As we enter the subterranean tunnels packed with memorabilia from an indistinct ‘past’, we strive to shed some light on the dim heterotopic space we found. We…
Topics: City and Village, Transformation
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Mobilities and commons unseen: spatial mobility in homeless people explored through the analysis of GPS tracking data
The aim of this study was to examine the spatial mobility of homeless people in urban areas, exploring homeless mobility, its drivers, limits and links to personal attributes, and whether there is an association between the extent of spatial activity and an individual’s housing situation. To our knowledge, there has been no prior exhaustive attempt to explore the spatial mobility of homeless people using Global Positioning System (GPS) location devices. The theoretical background of the research was…
Topics: Housing, City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Vlastní bydlení jako finanční bonus k důchodu
Kniha se zabývá otázkou, zda samotné vlastnictví bydlení může pomoci vyřešit finanční obtíže ve stáří a představovat doplňkový zdroj příjmu. Autoři a autorky objasňují postoje Čechů k vlastnímu bydlení v souvislosti s finančním zajištěním na stáří, a to na základě statistických dat i speciálně provedených výzkumů.V souvislosti se stárnutím české populace je generace dnešních čtyřicátníků stále silněji nabádána k tomu, aby se sama dostatečně zaji…
Topics: Housing, Economy
Jak zajistit dostupné bydlení?
Kdo dnes zkouší hledat bydlení v Praze nebo Brně, čelí často nepříjemnému překvapení. Ceny nemovitostí i nájemné dosahují takové výše, že i lidé s průměrnými příjmy začínají mít problémy si bydlení dovolit.Jak jsme se do této situace dostali?Co s tím můžeme dělat?A co můžeme chtít po politicích, aby se daná situace (vy)řešila?Kromě odpovědí na tyto otázky v publikaci naleznete i konkrétní zkušenosti z České republiky i ze zahraničí, jak je možné řešit …
Topics: Housing, Social Inequalities
Activity spaces of men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’s activity space is a key precondition for the daily coping strategies and life opportunities of homeless people. This study is the first to combine GPS tracking of hom…
Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Policy
Publication Type: Working Paper
Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse
In this article, we propose to expand the field of urban political ecology (UPE) by analyzing the role of discourse in the production of urban nature. We exemplify our case by analyzing media discourses and exploring discursive modes of justification and hierarchies of worth mobilized in socialist and postsocialist struggles over allotments in what is now the Czech Republic. We unravel particular discursive strategies and arguments used to depoliticize the struggle and justify the abolishment of allotments. Us…
Topics: Housing, Legitimacy, Media, City and Village
Activity spaces of homeless men and women measured by GPS tracking data: A comparative analysis of Prague and Pilsen
The aim of this article is to investigate the factors that influence the size of activity spaces of homeless men and women in cities. Vulnerable population groups such as the homeless face the risk of mobility challenges that can exacerbate their social exclusion even more through mobility-driven spatial exclusion. The extent of an individual’'s activity space is a key precondition for the daily coping strategies and life opportunities of homeless people. This study is the first to combine GPS tracking of …
Topics: City and Village, Research Methodology, Migration and Mobility, Social Inequalities, Social Policy
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Performing Housing Debt Attachments: Forming Semi-Financialized Subjects
This article contributes to the understanding of how first-time buyers and their parents form attachments to housing debt. Interviews, carried out in the Czech Republic, with 40 first-time homebuyers and 10 with their parents were used to identify multiple layers of debt performativity. These layers consist of statements expressing moral evaluations and emotions calculative and cognitive devices and references to practices. Two arguments are advanced through a framework of layered performativity. The first arg…
Topics: Housing, Identity, Intergenerational Relations
Private Rental Housing in Transition Countries
This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries – a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics. Part I presents the private rented sector in Western and Northern European countries, the history of private renting under socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and thematic issues such as restitution and marginalized groups depending on privatel…
Topics: Housing, Economy
Mezi taktikou a afektem, ne-místem a místem: Vizuální analýza každodenní geografie osob bez domova
The article uses photovoice to explore the everyday geography of homelessness and its affective dimension. We focus on two aspects of the everyday geography captured by photovoice: (1) movement in space and (2) the performativity of heterotopic places. The aim is to understand how the research partners as actors (re)present and (re)construct their everyday geography by visual means and how they relate to it affectively (or otherwise). Photovoice is a suitable method for this type of research as it has been use…
Topics: Housing, Gender, Research Methodology, Interpersonal Relations, Migration and Mobility
Publication Type: Article with impact factor
Orpheus in the Air-Raid Shelter: Underground theatre, Prague
Topics: City and Village
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