ABSTRACT
In the Czech Republic, as in some Scandinavian countries, there was an extensive cooperative housing sector. Although the housing cooperative system already had a pre-war tradition, the most extensive cooperative housing construction came after 1958, when the housing construction of state flats was insufficient to cover the high demand for housing. Privately owned family houses represent the last legal form on the housing market under Communism. In 1999 the residence size coefficient and decisive coefficient were annulled and the populist policy of the social democratic government virtually resulted in the deregulation process in the Czech Republic being stopped. The demand for social rental housing is expected to be high in the Czech Republic, particularly given the low level of public sector investment in the sector. The fact that social exclusion is mentioned among the challenges seems to be a little bit strange now when the large share of high income households occupy municipal housing.
