Housing Privatization in Eastern Europe

This book provides an important new contribution to the literature about Eastern Europe following the political changes of the early 1990s. Its focus is on housing, which before these changes was dominated in all Eastern European countries by state control and, to a lesser extent, state provision. Here, the contributors aim to describe and analyze the fundamental changes that are now taking place as these housing systems, together with their supporting financial institutions and building industries, are privatized.

This book provides an important new contribution to the literature about Eastern Europe following the political changes of the early 1990s. Its focus is on housing, which before these changes was dominated in all Eastern European countries by state control and, to a lesser extent, state provision. Here, the contributors aim to describe and analyze the fundamental changes that are now taking place as these housing systems, together with their supporting financial institutions and building industries, are privatized.

The core of the book consists of seven chapters by Eastern European research teams, each covering a different country and providing accounts of local housing systems before and after the recent political changes. The core and supporting chapters all emphasize analysis of housing change with reference to social and political change and discussion of the effects of privatization on the availability and distribution of housing.

DAVID CLAPHAM is Professor of Housing at the Centre for Housing Management and Development at the University of Wales.

JOZSEF HEGEDUS is Managing Director of Metropolitan Research in Budapest.

KEITH KINTREA is Lecturer in Housing at the Centre for Housing Research and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow.

IVAN TOSICS is Managing Director of Metropolitan Research in Budapest.

HELEN KAY is a research fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Dundee.