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Public Rental Housing Programme as Innovation

Constant challenges in the region of transitional countries are still related to polarized tenure structure, less investment in social housing, inefficient subsidies and growing affordability constrains. With the recent crisis inequalities have increased, unemployment is high, and insecurity is a part of everyday life. Massive support for homeowners in the form of mortgage subsidies and housing contract saving schemes, according to empirical has a regressive redistributive effect. With the problem of sustainability of social rental housing private rental become a crucial area for housing policy. It is a hard task to deal with housing affordability issue as a crucial fact, which dominates housing policy in transitional countries. There is a need to focus on social innovation and policy learning, utilizing the links of housing to other fields of welfare more systematically. This requires less emphasis on financial investment and more on housing as a lever for social investment. Social innovations in the field of housing are determinate and conditioned with very complex context related to the historical, cultural, political and economic development of certain cities. Innovation of public rental housing is entitled to young households, age up to 35, with more kids who are sub-tenant on the private rental market (that market is mostly not regulated at all) or living together with larger family but in unfavourable housing conditions and has been recently implemented in the city of Zagreb.

public rental ; social innovations ; Croatia ; Zagreb

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