ABSTRACT
There are at least two obstacles to analysing the problems of an extension eastwards of the EU from a housing policy point of view. One is the general lack of information about the housing component of European integration. The second is the lack of reliable comparable information on housing, not only showing the differences between Western and Eastern European countries, but between the eastern countries themselves. The situation has somewhat improved in the last years in relation to the second problem with the completion of the East-Central European Regional Housing Indicators project (funded by USAID with additional help from UNCHS/Habitat and the ECE) from which comparable information is available on the relative housing situation of the individual Central and East European countries.
