Mind the Poorest: Social Housing Provision in Post-crisis Romania

This paper reflects on recent social housing developments in Romania. It understands social housing as rental social housing and affordable housing, a differentiation that is not made at the national level and introduces a sub-type of affordable housing, which is little documented in current research and is here termed ‘self-help affordable housing’. The paper looks at the legacy of socialist housing and social housing before and after the crisis. It makes an important claim that needs further investigation: current social housing provision in Romania overlooks the poorest households. This has implications for the country’s political leadership; the capacity for financial and institutional innovation; and wider strategies for policy integration.

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Document Type
article
ISSN
2336-2839
Volume / Issue
4 / 2
Pages
54-66
Date of publication
24.12.2017

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Turcu, C. 2017. ‘Mind the Poorest: Social Housing Provision in Post-crisis Romania.’ Critical Housing Analysis 4 (2): 54-66. https://doi.org/10.13060/23362839.2017.4.2.386