The changing quality of life during "transition" - the housing component
The changing quality of life during "transition" - the housing component

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with housing as a complex good which possesses many different properties which are subject to social change. Besides physical attributes, which are usually referred to as ‘housing conditions' or ‘quality of housing', there are many other charachteristics which can be embraced under the notion of housing tenure and can be referred to as housing tenure characteristics. It is argued that the first set of housing properties is, in general, overrepresented relative to the second set. Furthermore it is also argued that the analysis of empirical regarding changes in housing during the so-called ‘transitional' period in Slovenia indicates that the most significant changes occurred not in housing quality but in housing tenure characterstics. That is why the Scandinavian ‘level of living' housing indicators need to be extended. This need has already been recognised by both 'the Housing right' approach and ‘the Housing Indicators Program'.

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