The 2006 Policy Update for Poland follows EOH guidelines for 2006 reports – its chapter structure emanates from these guidelines. Each chapter includes information on newly implemented policies and gives some background information, unless such information was provided in the 2005 Policy Report. The Policy Update considers the second half of 2005 and the first half of 2006. Its methodology, as advised by EOH, is desk analysis of available policies, research reports along with anecdotal observation.

Housing and housing rights proved to be significant issues during the Presidential and Parliamentary election campaigns which took place in Poland in the autumn of 2005. Strong political declarations were given, including the Family in its Own Home Housing Programme which the now ruling coalition has been promising to implement and will certainly be politically pressured to do so. The shortage of social housing continues to be a major dilemma, in that the development of all forms of publicly supported housing – communal apartments, social apartments, and social tenement apartments – suffer from multiple problems. The National Support Program for Social Housing Construction has been partially implemented and prolonged until the end of 2006. The housing allowance system has failed to prevent low income families from losing their apartments, as allowances are either not distributed to those most in need or are inadequate in bridging the income-rent gap.

 

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