The Czech government has approved a new housing concept for the coming years. It aims to support cooperative and rental housing, as well as to support the institutional and legal framework of social housing and to improve its financing. Minister for Regional Development Klára Dostálová (for YES) informed about it at a press conference after the government meeting.
According to the Ministry of Regional Development, the basic vision of the so-called Concept 2021+ is affordable, stable and sustainable housing. “In particular, we want to increase the number of rental housing as much as possible and also present a new investment program for cooperative flats,” said Jana Hanzlíková, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Regional Development for Housing and Social Inclusion.
Another goal, according to the Ministry of Regional Development, is a stable environment for housing, where the emphasis is mainly on the legislative environment and data collection, including the analysis of rent developments. The concept should also focus on the use of modern technologies in construction.
According to estimates, 70 percent of people in the Czech Republic live in their own flat or house, a fifth in a rented flat and about a tenth in cooperative housing. According to the Union of Czech and Moravian Housing Cooperatives, there are currently about 700,000 cooperative flats in the Czech Republic. In total, there are 4.37 million dwellings in the Czech Republic, of which 3.83 million are permanently occupied. Of these occupied dwellings, 2.16 million are for apartment buildings.
Source: CTK
