Mieszkalnictwo socjalne w Polsce w procesie zmian
Council housing in the process of changes

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this paper is council housing, as part of social housing in contemporary Poland. The goal of council housing is to deliver affordable homes to households with an income too low to allow for access to social housing or to rent a home on the open market. The provision of such assistance, which currently may take two forms of tenancy, is the municipalities’ own task. Currently, Poland is introducing changes in law which grant more flexibility to municipalities in terms of how homes used for the purpose of tenancy on social terms are created and how the existing housing stock is managed. These changes accompany the transformation of housing policy from a selective model in broad version to a selective model in narrow version (such in which housing assistance is addressed to low-income households only). So far, the National Housing Programme, adopted by the Government in 2016, has failed to bring measurable effects of increasing the supply of social homes or improving the provision of housing assistance to low- and very lowincome households. Nonetheless, the implemented projects have considerable potential to bring beneficial changes for social groups with low incomes, both within social and council housing.

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