Original scientific paper
ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN CROATIA
Gojko Bežovan
; Faculty of Law, Zagreb
Abstract
The housing policy and housing are an extremely important field
of the economic, social and political development of postcommunist
countries. The experience of developed countries
proves that the meeting of housing needs cannot be left to the
market alone. State intervention in the housing consumption in
post-communist countries is necessary. On the basis of the
experiences of developed countries in the field of social housing,
the text gives a typology of the intervention of the state in the
housing market. Housing problems and issues connected with
the economic, social and political development of Croatia are
analysed. The potential of the development of social housing in
Croatia (intervention of the state in the housing market) is analysed
within the context of current ecconomic, social and political
circumstances in the country. The results of this analysis are
obstacles and limitations for the development of social housing in
Croatia. The analysis made points out modest possibilities of the
development of social housing in Croatia, while the intervention of
the state in the housing market will be insufficient and inefficient.
Instead of the state intervention stimulating privatization of the
housing consumption and "europeanization" of the housing
policy, whereby the state is the enabler, again the state wants to
be a provider in the housing consumption, thus remaining within
the concept of the classical stateism.
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Hrčak ID:
33069
URI
Publication date:
1.1.1994.
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