The Romanian Housing Policy Bounds for Legal Patterns: Compulsory Insurance, Social Housing and the “First House” Program
The Romanian Housing Policy Bounds for Legal Patterns: Compulsory Insurance, Social Housing and the “First House” Program

Summary/Abstract: In Romanian law there is an extensive network of legal acts that refer to dwelling, which creates a series of obligations and tasks required for the State on the basis of which the Government assumes the responsibility of creating certain minimum requirements in the field of housing, as well as the correlative right of citizens to seek the fulfilment of those minimum obligations by the State. However, in the absence of the inclusion of the right to a decent dwelling in the Constitution, Romania remains the European State with the fewest steps taken in the field of housing policy. After a brief description of how the right to housing is stipulated in the Constitutions of other European States, this article examines the pros and cons of Romanian legislation with special regard to compulsory insurance of houses, rehabilitation of dwellings, social housing, housing for situations of necessity, the “First House” Program, concluding with a “de lege ferenda” proposal in the sense of inclusion of the right to a decent dwelling in Article 47 of the Constitution.

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