Publications
We published, edited or co-edited 13 books, 3 of them for international audience. We published more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 30 articles in international journals.
Grant projects
We were leaders or participated in solution of more than 15 grant projects, 5 of them were international projects. The outcomes (results) of most of the projects were evaluated as "outstanding". Martin Lux received in 2012 the Award of the Chair of the Czech Science Foundation for outstanding results of the project "Social Inequalities and the Market Risks Following from Housing Consumption. The Real and Desirable Response of State Fiscal and Monetary Policies".
Conferences and surveys
We organized or co-organized 4 international conferences, the European Network for Housing Research 2009 conference beeing the most important one. We conducted 2 representative national housing attitudes surveys any many more smaller surveys as a part of projects' solutions.
About
The Socio-economics of Housing Department is one of the research departments at the Institute of Sociology of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic.
Department activities:
- sociological research on housing: housing expenditures of households, housing carriers, satisfaction with housing, attitudes towards different tenures and different state interventions in the housing market;
- international comparisons of housing policies with special attention to the social aspects of housing: social housing systems, housing allowances;
- econometric simulations of different European housing allowance models under Czech conditions;
- social housing finance.
