Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 529-554).

Drawing on the case of Vienna, the article examines the role of third sector housing for social cohesion in the city. With the joint examination of an organisational and an institutional level of housing governance, the authors apply an interdisciplinary, multi-level research approach which aims at contributing to a comprehensive understanding of social cohesion as a contextualised phenomenon which requires place-based as well as structural (multi-level) solutions. Using a large-scale household survey and interviews with key informants, the analysis shows an ambiguous role housing cooperatives play for social cohesion: With the practice of "heme-oriented housing estates", non-profit housing returns to the traditional cooperative principle of Gemeinschaft. However, community cooperatives rather promote homogenous membership and thus, encompass the danger to establish cohesive islands that are cut off from the rest of the city. Furthermore, given the solidarity-based housing regime of Vienna, fostering bonding social capital on the neighbourhood level, might anyway just be an additional safeguarding mechanism for social cohesion. More important is the direct link between the micro-level of residents and the macro-level of urban housing policy. In this respect, cooperative housing represents a crucial intermediate level that strengthens the linking social capital of residents and provides opportunity structures for citizen participation. However, the increasing adoption of a corporate management orientation leads to a hollowing out of the cooperative principle of democratic member participation, reducing it to an informal and non-binding substitute. Thus, it is in the responsibility of both managements and residents to revitalise the existing democratic governance structures of cooperative housing before they will be completely dismantled by market liberalization and privatization. In contrast to other European cities, third sector housing in Vienna has the potential to give residents a voice beyond the neighbourhood and the field of housing. / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

The diploma thesis describes and maps the overall rental market in city Uherské Hradiště and is made up of text and graphs. First gives a general view of rental housing and then compares the amount of the rentals of apartments in various parts of the city and consider amendments to the lease. Collected data are divided into apartments for the 1 + 1 and 1 + kk (kitchen corner), 2 + 1 and 2 + kk, 3 + 1 and 3 + kk, 4 +1 and 4 + kk and larger. For each group creates a map of rents.

This thesis deals with the role of Czech housing policy in the independence of young adults in relation to the problem of lack of adequate housing in the Czech Republic. This issue is investigated within the framework of the theoretical lifestyle concepts and the transition to adulthood. These concepts should identify the impact of lack of housing availability for young people during their life - both in the process of separation and in the transition to adulthood. The analytical part of this thesis describes the current situation on the housing market, which can be characterized by a lack of adequate housing, the main factors influencing the housing policy creation, and the tools of housing policy focusing explicitly or implicitly on young people. In the empirical part following areas are investigated: the current housing situation of young adults; the barriers that young people encounter when seeking independent housing; the position of independent housing in the life of young people; the attitude of young people towards housing policy according to their age category. The final part answers to the goals of this thesis - it evaluates the support of housing policy focused on young adults in the growing lack of housing; it describes the main barriers that young people encounter; explains the impact...

The solved area with an area of approximately 4.2 hectares is the eastern part of the statutory city of Brno. It is located in the city of Brno Líšeň on the border of a row of village character with a small scale (old Líšeň) and loose construction of point, board and typified high-rise houses from the 20th century (new Líšeň). The aim of the project is to find a dialogue between the loose structure of the new Líšeň and the town-building structure of the old one. With its masses it creates clearly defined streets and spaces. At the same time, there is an effort to loosen the mass and to integrate it into the near nature with its form. The idea design is based on the principle of cohousing (community housing), which is designed for living in family houses and apartment buildings. The main idea of the project is to respond to today's individualized and automated time, when construction has ceased to focus on the formation of shared spaces = interpersonal relationships, it increasing anonymity and isolation. Basic social interactions, mutually beneficial relations between neighbors are disappearing. It is also a response to the disintegration of the traditional family and can replace family background. In the architectural form it also solves the issue of uniformity, the loss of human scale in modern construction. The emphasis in the project is on the diversity of types of apartments and on a diverse range of public, semi-public, semi-private and private spaces.

The presented dissertation concerns selected topics on flat construction in the 60's - experiments and prefabricated housing estates - and examines them closely in four different layers - political, ideological, architectonic and social. The work is structured into four main chapters, which constitute four pillars to uncover the history of flat construction and its context. The initial hypothesis of the dissertation was that the birth of panel housing estates at the end of the 50's, as well as its form and content in the upcoming decade, was influenced by the different starting points of the four mentioned layers. The viewpoint of state socialism and its ideology stemmed from the situation, when architecture in the whole socialistic block seized to be the instrument of Stalinist political representation in the spirit of the socialist realism and it became an important instrument of social reform on the promoted path to communism. This opinion, projected on an economic level, lead to an assumption that an affordable and high-quality collective housing makes the society effectively economically modernized. The living in these housing estates was intended to become the "display window" of the socialist lifestyle as well as the means of a morally higher type of consumer society. In the atmosphere of...

Martina Mikeszová : PHD DISSERTATION - HOUSING MARKET AND RISK OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC. ABSTRACT The PhD dissertation focuses on the theme of loss of permanent housing together with the problematic of housing affordability in the Czech Republic. In the first part, the objective is to identify the types of households potentially at risk of being unable to afford housing since 2000, and to trace the development of regional differences in the percentage of at-risk households in the Czech Republic. In the regard to the end of deregulation process in recent years, the analysis of housing (un)affordability of "market" rent housing shows the possible social consequences of the process. Owing to the absence of useful aggregate data on incomes and expenditures for different household types in the regions of the Czech Republic, the alternative data sources and the simulation methodology for measuring housing affordability which combines available regional wage statistics and data on market rents were used. The results indicate that the general risk of being unable to afford rental housing and regional differences in housing affordability are both decreasing. Not only the stagnation of market rent growth related to the growth of household income is behind the development. The main reason is the fact that...

The Master's dissertation entitled Limitation of legal capacity for persons with disabilities examines problematics of rights and obligations of clients in protected housing and housing for people with disabilities. The thesis is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. Basic concepts that are connected to legal capacity are outlined in the theoretical part. These are followed by the rights and obligations of the client and the institute of guardianship. Concepts of mental retardation and its diagnosis and methods of working with people with mental disabilities are outlined as well. The end of the theoretical part of the dissertation deals with the approach to deinstitutionalisation. The method of qualitative research was employed within the research survey. Data were obtained by the method of questioning and technique of semi-structured interviews. The research sample consists of addressing two facilities with constitutional service and two facilities with community service. The main aim of the practical part of the thesis is to compare how people with mental disabilities are limited by legal capacity in housing for people with disabilities and protected housing with appointed guardians. Semi-structured interviews and document studies serve as a help to support this aim. Acquired data...

The diploma thesis entitled " The Issue of the Necessity of Social housing of the Prague 2 Municipal District" deals with the definitions, possibilities and principles of social housing in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the phenomenon of housing and housing policy in the conditions of the Czech Republic in connection with the current problems of housing affordability for socially needy citizens. He also mentions the possibilities of support in the field of housing and the overall setting of psychosocial networks. An equally important part of the diploma thesis is the mapping of the issue of social housing in the City of Prague 2 using competency documents. The practical part of the thesis maps the reflections of social workers of the Office of the City District of Prague 2 on the issue of social housing in the Czech Republic and in the City district of Prague 2, in order to change the limits of availability of social housing in the City district. PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP...

Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchungen war die Wahrnehmung von massenhaften Wohnungsleerständen in den innerstädtischen älteren Geschosswohnungsbeständen Ostdeutschlands. In den Gebäuden der Gründerzeit steht derzeit etwa jede dritte Wohnung leer. Darin liegt nicht nur aus ökonomischer, sondern auch aus ökologischer Perspektive eine enorme Ressourcenvergeudung. Lohnt sich für diese Gebäude eine Sanierung? Wer könnten die künftigen Nutzer sein und wie sind deren Wohnpräferenzen einzuschätzen? Welche Entwicklungstendenzen und -potenziale sind erkennbar? Mit diesen Fragen befasst sich die vorliegende IÖR-Schrift 'Nutzbarkeit des älteren Geschosswohnungsbestandes'. Den Kern der Untersuchungen bildet eine Haushaltsbefragung in ausgewählten Wohngebieten, die in Abstimmung mit Experten der Praxis so gewählt wurden, dass typische Entwicklungsdynamiken abgebildet werden. Wesentliche Bausteine der Beurteilung von Zuzugs- und Bleibepotenzialen unterschiedlicher Nutzergruppen sind die Gruppierung potenzieller Nachfrager nach Haushaltstypen, ein Qualitätstypenansatz für Wohngebäude sowie ein mehrdimensionales Konzept der Wohnzufriedenheit. Die Untersuchungen haben gezeigt, dass die Wohnungen in den älteren Geschosswohnungsbeständen für ein breites Nutzerspektrum mit unterschiedlichen Präferenzen geeignet sind. Allerdings ist festzustellen, dass sowohl das Zuzugs- als auch das Bleibepotenzial bei den einzelnen Haushaltstypen unterschiedlich ausgeprägt ist. Die Autoren kommen abschließend zu der Empfehlung, dass man in den Gebieten vorfindliche eigendynamische Nutzungsansätze unterstützen sollte, wobei auch mögliche Bedenken hinsichtlich typischer, unerwünschter sozialer Effekte im Zusammenhang mit Sanierungs- und Modernisierungsprozessen durch die weit bedeutendere Problematik der zögerlichen Wiedernutzung der Gebiete nach dramatischen Bevölkerungsverlusten relativiert werden.:Tabellenverzeichnis.................................................................................V Abbildungsverzeichnis...........................................................................VII Vorbemerkungen.....................................................................................1 1 Grundlagen und Hypothesen zur Nutzbarkeit älterer Geschosswohnungsbestände..................................................................3 1.1 Problemstellung, Stand der Forschung und Hypothesen...................3 1.2 Die zentralen Hypothesen im Detail...................................................5 1.3 Operationalisierung.........................................................................12 1.3.1 Der Begriff der Nutzbarkeit...........................................................12 1.3.2 Wohnzufriedenheit zur Beschreibung von Nutzbarkeit.................13 1.3.3 Operationalisierung der Hypothesen mit Blick auf potenzielle Einflussfaktoren auf die Nutzbarkeit......................................................15 2 Untersuchungsgegenstand, Rahmenbedingungen, Untersuchungsgebiete und Haushaltsbefragung..................................18 2.1 Untersuchungsgegenstand.............................................................18 2.2 Wohnungsmarktentwicklung in der Stadt Dresden..........................19 2.3 Auswahl der Untersuchungsgebiete................................................22 2.4 Allgemeine Beschreibung der Untersuchungsgebiete......................24 2.5 Haushaltsbefragung........................................................................33 3 Befragungsergebnisse........................................................................40 3.1 Nutzergruppen................................................................................40 3.1.1 Haushaltstypen............................................................................40 3.1.2 Anforderungen der Haushalte an die Wohnsituation....................46 3.1.3 Qualitätstypen..............................................................................53 3.1.4 Wohnzufriedenheit.......................................................................57 3.1.5 Wohndauer und Umzugswunsch..................................................67 3.1.6 Sozialstruktur...............................................................................75 3.2 Mieterbeteiligung und Eigenleistung................................................88 3.3 Wohnung und Gebäude...................................................................93 3.3.1 Wohnungsgröße...........................................................................93 3.3.2 Wohnungsausstattung...............................................................101 3.3.3 Instandsetzung und Modernisierung..........................................107 3.3.4 Stadtstrukturtyp und Haustyp....................................................116 3.4 Wohnumfeld..................................................................................121 3.5 Umwelt und Gesundheit................................................................126 3.6 Externe Einflüsse...........................................................................131 3.6.1 Miete und Mietbelastung............................................................131 3.6.2 Eigentumsverhältnisse...............................................................139 3.6.3 Wohnungsteilmärkte..................................................................143 4 Nutzbarkeit.......................................................................................149 4.1 Nutzbarkeit aus der Sicht der Nachfragergruppen.........................149 4.2 Allgemeine Potenziale der älteren Geschosswohnungsbestände..158 4.3 Nutzungschancen der Wohnungen in unterschiedlichen Wohngebieten.....................................................................................159 Abschließende Bemerkungen...............................................................164 Anlage 1: Fragebogen.........................................................................169 Anlage 2: Luftbilder der Untersuchungsgebiete..................................185 Literaturverzeichnis.............................................................................189