It is estimated that nearly 20 to 30 percent of the Hungarian population lives in housing scarily. This means that they have difficulties with paying their housing costs (rent and utilities) live in poor-quality or overcrowded housing, they live in tenure insecurity, or the location of their dwelling is unfavorable places. Recently, the housing deprivation is stable. If we compared to other Visegrád countries like Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia housing deprivation we will see that Hungry is on the top. As the nation-state is a crucial actor in offering a national framework for housing policies and legislation, local governments are also important players in decreasing housing poverty and housing-related inequalities with improved local policies and local legislation. The progressive housing policies have the duty of the state to help their citizens find a way out from housing poverty, and therefore to diminish social inequalities and these Progressive housing policies are based on two interrelated principles. The housing policies should be based on a large share of public property and another principle that is a human fundamental right.
New housing institutions in which the local government is an initiator or mediator would help to solve the local housing crisis. Municipalities were historically important actors in mediating between the housing needs of residents, companies employing them, and other institutions (such as schools or universities in which young people need housing).