Housing

Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion does not support new investment into infamous housing estate properties

25.6.2019 7:08  full story

Czech Labor and Social Affairs Ministry plans to abolish existing housing benefits

22.6.2019 17:10  full story

Czech Pirate Party starting new approach to social inclusion of Roma in northern town

12.6.2019 9:04  full story

Czech town buying real estate in troubled neighborhoods for social housing development

10.6.2019 9:16  full story

Czech Republic's governing party tries to spin real estate market fluctuation as proof of its "success" at tackling ghettoes

10.6.2019 8:18  full story

First Czech real estate agency motivated by social responsibility in the Plzeň Region opens for business

5.6.2019 8:51  full story

Czech city backtracks on scope of plan to house homeless, cutting the units to be offered by half

7.5.2019 7:00  full story

Czech MP moving into impoverished Romani neighborhood in northern Bohemia

24.4.2019 8:22  full story

videoHow a Romani family in the Czech Republic lost their housing through no fault of their own

6.4.2019 18:12  full story

Analysis: Czech society remains blind to how the poorest of the poor are (not) housed

3.4.2019 8:13  full story

EU Fundamental Rights Agency: Czech Republic's Roma still have problems accessing education, housing and jobs

14.3.2019 17:19  full story

Regional Roma association opposes housing benefit-free zones in yet another Czech city

4.3.2019 16:58  full story

Czech Government Agency for Social Inclusion criticizes housing benefit-free zones

25.2.2019 9:12  full story

Czech Republic: 88 cities in 12 regions plan to ban housing benefits in specific zones

7.11.2018 11:31 The Institute for Social Inclusion (IPSI) reports that a total of 88 cities and municipalities in 12 regions are planning to announce or have already announced zones with increased incidences of undesirable phenomena where new applicants for housing benefits will not be allowed to receive them for residence at those addresses. The only regions where local authorities have not taken this step are the Pardubice and South Moravian Regions.
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Czech Republic: Realtor tells tenants they'd better not be on welfare

7.11.2018 9:03 The Czech Republic's biggest private provider of rental accommodations, the Residomo company (which until last February operated under the name RPG Byty_ has stopped extending the rental contracts for some of its tenants. In the Ostrava-Poruba neighborhood this particularly concerns buildings on Dělnická and Skautská streets.  full story

Czech Govt Agency for Social Inclusion: 80 % of families who left residential hotels for standard rentals still renting one year later

18.10.2018 22:01 More than four-fifths of households living in residential hotels who were able to apply for extraordinary benefits to cover the costs of deposits and equipment when moving into standard rental apartment units are still in that housing in good standing one year later. Almost one-fifth of such households, moreover, made the move without requesting housing benefits from the state at all.  full story

Robin Stria, 7th place candidate for the Greens, Brno-střed: The biggest problem in the Czech Republic is housing

27.9.2018 7:29 More than 160 Romani candidates are running in this year's local elections on 5 and 6 October. News server Romea.cz is presenting interviews with those we believe have the biggest chance of being elected who are listed in top positions on the candidate lists of registered political parties and movements.  full story

Czech Govt Human Rights Commissioner says she will criticize politicians who are racist and resign rather than be censored

20.7.2018 14:39 Speaking in an interview for ROMEA TV, the newly-appointed Czech Government Commissioner for Human Rights, Martina Štěpánková, who answers directly to Czech
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, the head of the ANO movement, said that "Politicians create the climate in society to a significant degree. For that reason it is very important for many more politicians here to condemn racism and discrimination."  full story

Slovak court finds Romani tenants were discriminated against during eviction and relocation

16.7.2018 9:23 A court in eastern Slovakia has decided that the authorities committed discrimination when they evicted tenants from buildings in the center of the town of Sabinov because their treatment of the non-Romani and the Romani tenants was not the same. The Regional Court in Prešov has now closed a dispute that has lasted more than a decade  with its decision.  full story

Residents of Czech neighborhood announce "Two Weeks of Vigilance" to protest their impending eviction

16.7.2018 7:43 On Monday 9 July the residents of the Bedřiška neighborhood in Ostrava, Czech Republic announced "Two Weeks of Vigilance" out of concern that they will lose their housing there. The event, subtitled "Colors of Bedřiška" (a reference to the annual music festival Colors of Ostrava), is meant to draw attention to the difficult situation of the locals and present life in the neighborhood, which has not met the definition of an "excluded locality" for some time, to the public.  full story