"To Own or Not to Own". Post-socialist Housing Policy and Regimes of Staying, Moving and Settling in Prague, Czech Republic
2018
Abstrakt
Based on fieldwork conducted on peripheries of Prague, my presentation focused on various forms of housing vulnerability in Prague. A situation of 40 year old non-owner, mother of two children, who was forced to move out from suburban housing estate and resettle in the countryside, will be confronted with the strategies and practices of the "newcomers" - post-Soviet region immigrants who are moving in and settling or even buying flats in similar suburban housing estates.
Examined through individual spatialities, temporalities, and hybrid regimes of in/out, local/global, owner/non-owner the paper will reveal the ways of staying, moving and settling in the context of overheated post-socialist housing market.