Contents // Figures vii // Tables ix // Contributors xi // Introduction: Housing in Post-communist Europe - Issues and Agendas xiii // PART I: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON HOUSING REFORMS 1 // 1 Housing Reforms and Market Performance 3 // Robert M. Buckley and Sasha Tsenkova // 2 Housing in South-Eastern Europe 21 // Iván Tos ics and József Hegedüs // 3 Privatization and Rent Deregulation in Eastern Europe 45 // Andrew Roberts // 4 The Private Rented Sector - Evidence from Budapest and Sofia 63 // Stuart Lowe // 5 Comparative Perspectives on Urban Housing Conditions 73 // Iván Tosics // PART II: THE SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR 81 // 6 ‘Social’ Rental Housing in the Czech Republic Now and Tomorrow 83 // Martin Lux // 1 The Prospects for Social Housing in Slovakia 95 // Elena Szolgayová // 8 The Impact of Property Restitution on Housing Development in East // Germany 105 // Birgit Clock and Carsten Keller // VI // Housing Change in East and Central Europe // 9 Housing a ‘Nation of Home Owners’ - Reforms in Bulgaria 113 // Alle Elbers and Sasha Tsenkova // 10 Housing Markets and Empowerment of Tenants in Slovenia 125 // Srna Mandic // PART III: HOUSING MARKET RESPONSES - CASE STUDIES 135 // 11 Housing Challenges and Policy Responses: The Case of Riga 137 // Sasha Tsenkova // 12 An Emerging Private Rental Market in Ljubljana 155 // Richard Sendi // 13 The New Housing Market in Tirana 171 // Luan Deda // 14 Housing Markets and Family Incomes 181 // Judit Székely // 15 Housing
Policy Matters: The Reform Path in Central and Eastern Europe 193 Sasha Tsenkova // Bibliography // Index // 205 // 217