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Social housing as a residual part of social care in Croatia

The paper is a result of a recent survey on housing social programmes in Croatia. In transitional countries with small public rental sectors, the role of housing allowance system is rather marginal. Such programmes to a greater extent meet the urgent needs of very low income families than they increase housing demand. Policy framework of housing allowance system is a part of social care policy and it is in whole the responsibility of local and partly regional authorities. In comparison with housing allowance policy in other transitional counties, it is evident that here we are dealing with residual social programmes. After the public housing sale in the beginning of 1990s, there was no legitimacy for investment in social housing construction. Social housing construction is a task for local authorities and from empirical evidence it seems that several larger cities are paving the way of local social housing programmes. Without the support from the national level, these social housing initiatives will remain marginal both in size and importance. The results of this research are discussed in the light of recent development in the housing market caused by the new economic crisis.

Social Housing; Housing policy; Croatia

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