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Grant project supported by the Czech Science Foundation, no. 16-06335S. The project started at 1.1.2016 and will be finished at 31.12.2018. The head of the project is Martin Lux, Ph.D.
The project focuses on the future role of housing as an asset for supplementing retirement income, sometimes called asset- (housing-) based welfare (ABW). The interest in this subject is motivated by the process of population ageing. The partial shift from public to private welfare provision is assumed to take place due to unsustainable public pay-as-you-go pension schemes; and housing wealth forms the major part of European households’ wealth. However, the future consequences of ABW on social inequalities among the elderly and social inequalities in general (as a result of changes in inter-generational solidarity ), as well as efficiency and sustainability of ABW itself for future generations against alternative housing market trends, are empirically unexplored in recent research. Situation in post-socialist societies has remained wholly outside the scope of existing research. This project aims to fill in these gaps in existing research, by applying both qualitative research and microsimulation and agent-based modelling.
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Grant project supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, no. TD03000050. The project started at 1.1.2016 and will be finished at 31.12. 2017. The head of the project is Petr Sunega.
The project aims to develop a certified method serving for identification of local housing market failure and its quantification. The method will be applied in municipal applications for state subsidies on social housing investments as a service of general economic interest. Market failure is defined as an inability of household to get adequate (by quality and size), financially affordable and spatially integrated housing under standard market conditions. The employment of the proposed methodology should guarantee the effective use of public sources for social housing investments; i.e. the subsidies will (1) fit with EU rules, (2) optimise the public expenditures, and (3) will not create housing market distorsions.
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Acronym HELPS means Housing and Home-care for the Elderly and Local Partnership Strategies in Central European cities.
Grant project supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
Programme: Active ageing in the CENTRAL EUROPE
- Priority 4: Enhancing competitiveness and attractiveness of cities and regions.
- Area of Intervention 2: Addressing the territorial effects of demographic and social change on urban and regional development.
- Concept 6: Innovative housing and care solutions for the elderly and vulnerable persons in Central European cities.
- Area of Intervention 2: Addressing the territorial effects of demographic and social change on urban and regional development.
Duration: October 2011 – September 2014
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Grant project supported by the Czech Science Foundation, no. GA403/09/1915. Project started 1.1.2009, finished 31.12.2011. The head of the project was Martin Lux, Ph.D. The total financial support amounted CZK 3.4 mil.
The objective of the project is to make a comprehensive, theoretically framed, and empirically grounded, context-based description of the transformation of housing conditions in the CR after 1990, including both the identification of the main causes of this development and an analysis of its effects on social inequalities and market risks. In the area of inequalities the project focuses on housing affordability, the residential property distribution, access to housing, and extreme forms of inequalities (social exclusion). In the area of market risks the project focuses on risks arising from the growth in the level of homeownership, the mortgage market development, and the "manipulation" of housing demand. The goal is also to evaluate current tools of state housing and monetary policy, whether they effectively limit the growth of social inequalities that are a threat to sustainable economic growth and social cohesion, whether they limit the growth of market system risks, and to make general recommendations for changes in this fields.
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Project supported by the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic, no. WD-05-07-3. Project started 1.2.2007, finished 31.12.2011. The head of the project was Martin Lux, Ph.D. Besides the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (coordinating recipient - researcher) participated on the project also the Institute for Regional Information, Ltd. (recipient - researcher) and VŠB - Technical University Ostrava (recipient - researcher). The total financial support for the Institute of Sociology amounted CZK 7.98 mil.
The goal of the project was to reveal and quantify regional disparities in availability and affordability of housing, describe their development, analyse their socio-economic consequences. Propose tools to decrease disparities and increase availability and affordability of housing.