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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300852603321

Titolo

Private Rental Housing in Transition Countries : An Alternative to Owner Occupation? / / edited by József Hegedüs, Martin Lux, Vera Horváth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

1-137-50710-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 418 p. 17 illus., 13 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography

Economic policy

Economics

European Union

Social policy

Human Geography

Political Economy/Economic Systems

European Union Politics

Social Policy

Europe European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents an overview of private rented housing in selected new EU member states and other transition countries – a topic scarcely researched to date, as it is largely part of the informal economy, and consequently often invisible to official statistics. Part I presents the private rented sector in Western and Northern European countries, the history of private renting under socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and thematic issues such as restitution and marginalized groups depending on privately rented housing. Part II provides a series of country case studies from the Central and East European region. Part III concludes with chapters on the possibility of utilizing the private rental sector in affordable housing provision through good practices in



both old and new EU member states, and sets out to further the housing policy debate on European housing regimes. This unique edited collection will be of great value to scholars of and practitioners involved in housing policy and economics, urban development, international relations, politics, economics and sociology.