Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Publish Date 06/04/2017
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Edited By Suneela Farooqi
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Social Housing Concept of Czech Republic 2015 – 2025

Main social problems in housing area are as follows:

  1. Households are overburdened by housing costs (30-35% for social housing policy and 40 % for overburden rate).
  2. Ineffective public finance transfers and the rise in prices of energies,
  3. Demographic changes decrease the number of younger people and an increasing number of older people,
  4. Insufficient compliance of state redistribution role in social housing,
  5. Insufficient public financial resource. Discrimination of some social groups, An increasing number of homeless people, and people at risk of being homeless,
  6. Low awareness about solutions and help possibilities, and
  7. Missing definition of social housing in legislation.

For social housing, the priority groups are:

  1. Elderly people, disabled, families with children, single parents defined by ETHOS classification or being overburdened by housing costs (40 %),
  2. Victims of domestic violence, People leaving orphanages, People leaving foster care,
  3. Vulnerable families with children.

For acquirement of social housing:

  • Families with children and persons living outside/on the streets.

For acquirement of crisis housing:

  • Persons at high risk to life or health.

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