As a celebration of its 25th anniversary, Metropolitan Research Institute organised a conference on 2-4 November 2014, with a focus on the Central and East European region’s housing and urban policy development in the past 25 years.
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Conference: Housing First for the Roma in the 21st century? Possibilities and Limits
In the Czech Republic, there is new impetus for the development of social housing policy. The new Minister for Human Rights expressed the need to find standard housing for people with housing needs and the government declared the will to finally prepare a Law on Social Housing, which is still lacking in the Czech legislative framework.
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Residential mortgage lending: social and individual risks – social consequence of the FX mortgage loan crisis after 2008 in Hungary
A research project on “Residential mortgage lending: social and individual risks – social consequence of the FX mortgage loan crises after 2008 in Hungary” was launched in February 2014, in cooperation between the Metropolitan Research Institute (MRI) and Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Centre for Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology (HAS CSS IS).