Housing Provision in Yugoslavia: Changing Roles of the State, Market, and Informal Sectors
- 1 January 1990
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
Privatization has been recognized as a prominent trend in the housing policies of advanced capitalist societies. It is described in terms of a general shift of responsibility for housing provision from the state to the market. The increasing reliance on private financing, private construction, and private ownership of the housing stock starting in the 1970s corresponds to governments' gradual retreat from the type of direct involvement characteristic of the massive production programs of the 1950s and 1960s, in which government subsidies to producers successfully stimulated the production of housing, thereby reducing the severe housing shortages of the early postwar period. ...Keywords
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