Bulgarian Housing Reform and Forms of Housing Provision

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to explore the extent to which state intervention and market forces affect the housing provision system. Existing Bulgarian housing policy reform will be analysed with particular emphasis on the dynamics of change, the formation of a new market-oriented system and its considerable impact on innovation in the structures of housing provision. Relevant issues will be brought together to present the wide range of factors which contribute to the formation of nationally specific private and public forms of housing provision. Relevant issues will be brought together to present the wide range of factors which contribute to the formation of nationally specific private and public forms of housing provision, identifying their potential and constraints, and outlining major characteristics. Of primary concern is the extent to which a radical change of relationship between the state and the market, as occurred in Bulgaria, can modify the evolution of different forms of housing provision and the performance of key actors.