There is a housing crisis in Hungary today. Thousands of people live on the streets and in shelters, hundreds of thousands are terrified of the prospect of eviction or having to look for shelter in crowded, unhealthy apartments because they do not have any alternatives to the market price apartments and mortgages. The ratio of public housing is one of the lowest in the European Union (3%), and the number of empty, unused private and municipally owned apartments is increasing.
The Város Mindenkié (The City is for All) demands the development of a comprehensive housing policy from each and every local and the national government which would provide protection against massive unemployment and enables low income households to access to affordable housing via the expansion of social housing. One of the first steps would be the utilization of the unused, vacant buildings and apartments of the local governments and the inciting of establishing social tenancies in vacant, privately owned properties.
The AVM’s recommendations for the utilization of vacant apartments:
The registration of the vacant real estates and the publication of the statistical data.
The goal of the register is to gain information on the real estates which have been abandoned for a longer period of time (sometimes, even for years) for the local governments and the civil organizations in order to make these homes available for the programs concerning the utilization of empty apartments.
Granting temporary tenancies of the apartments, which are waiting for renovation or demolition, in public housing programs.
Instead of leaving certain apartments empty for years by citing plans for future demolitions, so called temporary tenancies should be established with indigent tenants. The contract could be for a single year (with options for renewal) for extremely benevolent rentrates or merely for the overhead charges. While this wouldn’t be a permanent solution of the tenants, it would win the them enough time to accumulate some saving or to look for other solutions. The bottom line is, do not evict the tenants until right the actual works begin to be conducted.
Surveying the requirements of turning non-inhabitable buildings into habitable residences.
Local governments should conduct a survey on the possibilities of turning state-owned, uninhabitable buildings into residences. Those which are not upgradeable are to be made available to civil organisations and small businesses which could energize the city.
2012.06.19. 06:00 •
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