Peripheral condition of the Croatian housing system vs. the local history of self-management housing relations in Yugoslavia

Iva Marčetić

Chapter 12 in Resisting the Financialization of Housing, 2026, pp 155-168 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines how the transformation of housing and ownership regimes created contemporary peripheral financialization in South-East Europe, characterized by outward wealth transfer and inward housing policy transfer. At a moment when even the European Commission incorporated housing into one of its competencies due to overwhelming crises of housing affordability, this chapter brings forward the example of Croatia as it is currently undergoing yet another major housing policy shift triggered by both the crises and the investment climate in the EU. Using Croatia as a country of reference, the chapter looks into how the peripheral condition, manifested through financial dependency, policy, and skill transfers, persists and results in the near impossibility of developing stable public and non-profit housing provision. This is contrasted with the historical and autonomous experiment of self-managed housing production in Yugoslavia, a system specifically designed to create reliance of the housing sector on locally sourced and horizontally managed finance, creation of collective wealth, individual security of tenure, and prevention of joint harm.

Keywords: Self-management; Decommodification of housing; Commons; Social property; Croatia; Yugoslavia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035379637
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