Naslov
Contemporary Challenges of Croatian Housing Policies in the Context of Post-Socialist Urban Development

Autori
Bežovan, Gojko ; Pandžić, Josip

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, ostalo

Skup
Urban and Housing Systems under Pressure: Varieties of Responses

Mjesto i datum
Budimpešta, Mađarska, 27.09.2019. - 29.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
urban development, housing policy, Croatia, post-socialism, EU.

Sažetak
Political and economic transformations of early 1990s in post-socialist countries of Europe had long-term impacts on housing policies and urban development, mostly through housing policy retrenchment and the dissolution of socialist urban planning. Reformed state and local institutional capacities in Croatia soon after 1990 became obsolete due to privatization, marketization and fiscal austerity measures implemented. Instead, actors of a newly formed private sector – mostly speculators and members of the new entrepreneurial class – acquired power in housing policy through lobbying and clientelist relationships with political elites during prolonged transition. For post-socialist countries, EU accession represented an unique chance in the 2000s when it came to general improvement of housing policy instruments by aligning them with EU development goals via Europeanization processes notwithstanding compliance with subsidiarity principle in the housing area. Concrete effects of Europeanization processes and mechanisms are yet to be seen in Croatian housing policy because of a rather late EU accession. Goal of this paper is to critically analyse main housing policy problems and challenges of Croatian cities in pre-crisis and post-crisis periods, with a special focus on prevalent quantitative and qualitative housing issues in the post-socialist urban development context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Socijalne djelatnosti

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