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.
Social inclusion
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.
Conference, September 2013: Is there an Option for Social Rental Agencies?
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.)
Study on the development of the SOS-children’s village programme in Kőszeg and its region (2013)
Interview with Dr. Iván Tosics, Sociologist, Urban Researcher, the Thematic Pole Manager of the RE-Block project (ReBLOCK)
ReBLOCK project
There have been many surveys and researchesThe State of European Cities in Transition (2010-2012)
UN-HABITAT, Nairobi & Institute of Urban Development, Kraków
Metropolitan Research Institute prepared the study for the “Western Subregion” of Central and Eastern European transition countries: the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) the Visegrad Four countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), and Slovenia. The detailed analysis of the cities in this region covered overviews on the central topics of Population and Urbanization; The Economic Role of Cities; Social and Housing Issues; Urban Environmental Challenges; Urban Governance Systems; and Emerging Issues.
Nearly the entire staff of MRI researchers participated in the production of the analysis; moreover, MRI actively participated in the preparation of the project’s Summary Report.