ABSTRACT
Despite a long tradition of housing funded from public sources, the concept of social housing was formally missing from Slovak law. The Slovak Parliament adopted the Act on Social Housing only in 2010 (Act No. 443/2010 Coll. on Grants for Development of Housing and on Social Housing). Under the term social housing, the law grouped the principles, tools, and practices developed by the Slovak government during the transition since 1989. The housing situation in Slovakia differs from the other part of former Czechoslovakia and was shaped by settlement history in Slovakia and a distinct pattern of modernization after World War II.
