ABSTRACT

It should be stressed that the Czech and Slovak housing experts started a discussion on the need to change the existing housing system four years ago. It was a theoretical discussion, but with implicit political effects. In the year 1987 Charter 77 also produced a critical document on Czechoslovak housing dealing mainly with the housing problems of young people in Prague.3 Some participants in the discussion only repeated reformist arguments from the late 1960s, but others went further and started to propose more radical solutions stimulated by the Hungarian and, to a lesser degree, by the Polish housing reforms. But the main impetus for change came from analyses of the function of the Czechoslovak housing system.