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.