Metropolitan Research Institute organised a conference in Budapest, called ’Emerging Private Rental Sector in Accession and Transition Countries: Is there an Option for Social Rental Agencies?’, about housing issues in transition countries between 12-14 September 2013. (Click on “more” to download conference material.)
The conference was organised in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity Hungary, and with the support of EU FP7, the Visegrad Fund, and Open Society Foundations. More than 60 participants and speakers, from 15 countries, were present at the plenary sessions and workshops; representing research institutions, universities, and international organisations (including FEANTSA, World Bank, Council of Europe Development Banks, Habitat for Humanity International). Besides providing an overview of housing issues in transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the conference focused on the possibilities of tenancy law and the rental sector, and the option of involving private residential lease in social housing. Representatives of Social Housing agencies functioning in Western European countries – companies and associations renting on the private sector to sublet to persons in need, on a preferential rate – also shared their experience.
You can download the final programme and the list of participants here.
The studies on social housing and the feasibility of Social Rental Agencies in the Visegrad Four countries, distributed on the conference, can be downloaded on this link.
The presentations, in Power Point or PDF, can be accessed on the following links:
Thematic Introductions:
a. Christoph Schmid: Tenancy Law in Europe The ZERP Tenlaw Project and its Focus on Regulatory Failures
b. Sven Bergenstråhle: Social housing and the rental sector
Plenary session 1: Rental tenure types in post-socialist countries
a. Magdalena Habdas: An overview of Leases and Tenure Types in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
b. Spelca Meznar: Rental tenures in post-socialist countries: Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia
c. József Hegedüs: Rental Tenure Types in Post-Socialist Countries – the case of Hungary
d. Irene Kull: Tenure types in post-socialist countries – country report: Estonia
Plenary session 2: Housing policies and development of housing tenures
a. Grzegorz Panek: Evolution of housing policy and social tenure types in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia
b. Vera Horváth: Housing Policy and Development of Tenure Forms in Hungary
Plenary session 3: Western European experiences with social rental agencies
a. Pascal de Decker – SRA as a tool to overcome problems with private renting in Flanders, Belgium
b. Ruth Owen – Social Rental Agencies – A European Perspective
c. Marta dos Santos Silva – Public Renting through Agencies in Luxemburg
d. Somogyi Eszter – Social Rental Agencies in Ireland
Plenary session 4: Western European experiences with social rental agencies (cont.)
a. Bernard Vorms: Private sector leasing in France to house underprivileged households
b. Giovanni Magnano – Social Housing in Italy
National case studies – Group A
a. Mina Petrovic – Private Rental Housing in Serbia
b. Tamara Petrovic – Housing policies and development of housing tenures (Western Balkans region)
c. Richard Sendi – Emerging private rental sector in transition countries – Slovenia
d. Ana Jakupic – Rental tenures in Croatia – Regulation and management of housing
National case studies – Group B
a. Marek Hojsík – Private Rental Sector in Slovakia
b. Martin Lux – Private and social: contradiction or coherence? Case of the Czech Republic
c. Alina Muzioł-Węcławowicz – Regulations in the area of appartment tenancy and perspectives of rental housing development in Poland
National case studies – Group C
a. Ave Hussar – Overview of the regulation and the management of housing policies in Estonia
b. Irina Zapatrina – Ukraine (case study)
c. Alexander Puzanov – Private Rental Housing Development in Russia
National case studies – Group D
a. Ioan Bejan – Rental Housing Market in Romania
b. Dilyana Giteva, Ilko Yordanov – Private Rental Sector as a Potential Sources for Social Housing in Bulgaria
c. Hegedüs József – Case study on Hungary – a proposal for SRA
Workshop 1: Managing risks in the rental sector (“black market” issues)
Christoph Schmid – Black Market Phenomena in Tenancy Relations in Europe
Workshop 2: Linking Roma housing issues to mainstream social housing policy
a. Catalin Berescu – Roma Agency vs. Housing Rights – Policies of Ethnicizing the Mainstream (Part 1) (Part 2)
b. Marek Hojsík – Social Housing for Roma in Slovakia
c. Mina Petrovic – In search of sustainable approach to Roma housing
d. Tonk Gabriella – Area-Based Interventions for making the most of EU Fund for Sustainable Housing and Inclusion of disadvantaged Roma…
e. Boyan Zahariev – Roma housing and mainstream social housing policy in Bulgaria
f. Stepan Ripka – Integrated Urban Development Plan in Most, Czech Republic – “Improving the environment in problematic housing estates”
Panel discussion: The role of EU Funds in Roma housing programs
a. Teller Nóra – Summary of the Roma Housing Workshop
b. Kosuke Anan – Integrated Interventions for Addressing Roma Living Conditions
c. Victoria Berrocal Ruiz on Council of Europe Standards regarding Roma housing