What is wrong with housing in Eastern Europe today?

David Ireland
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David Ireland: World Habitat, Memorial Square, Coalville, Leicestershire, UK

Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 2020, vol. 14, issue 2, 128-134

Abstract: The fall of communism in Eastern Europe was one of the most significant and dramatic events in the second half of the 20th century. While it has brought huge improvements in people’s lives, it has also led to serious housing shortages, resulting in a severe lack of affordable housing and rapidly rising homelessness. The author discusses the main implications of this and highlights the current situation in two former communist countries. Here he focuses on the approaches taken at a sub-government level, including how communities are working to take control and design and build homes themselves.

Keywords: housing; communism; homelessness; community-led housing; Bratislava; Slovenia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R00 Z33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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