Video recording of discussion on social residential hotels in Czech Republic

On Monday 15 April 2013 a discussion was held about so-called “social
residential hotels” in the Czech Republic. The event in the conference space of
HUB PRAHA, called “Garbage dumps for those we don’t want”, discussed whether the
state should support such facilities or close them.

Those speaking included:

• Helena Jedináková, director of the Social Services Unit at the Life
  Together (Vzájemné soužití) civic association in Ostrava
• Miroslav Kalous, Deputy Regional Development Minister for housing and
  zoning policy
• Michaela Marksová – Tominová, Shadow Human Rights and Equal
  Opportunities Minster, Czech Social Democratic Party (ČSSD)
• Štěpán Ripka, social anthropologist, Faculty of Humanities, Charles
  University in Prague
• Matěj Stropnický, Vice-Chair of the Czech Green Party (Strana zelených)
  and Vice-Mayor of the Prague 3 municipal department
• Martin Šimáček, director, Czech Government Agency for Social Inclusion
• Martin Škabraha, philosopher, Ostrava University, member of the ProAlt
  initiative
• Viktor Mahrik, Czech Pirate Party (Pirátská strana), guarantor of the
  Equality section of the party platform

A video recording of the discussion (in Czech only) can be viewed at: