CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Oláh, Dániel |
|---|---|
| Title | Tenure Neutrality of Rental Sector Policies in Hungary in an International Context |
| Summary | Tenure neutrality of housing sector policies has been advocated by several international organizations after the millennia, but the fact that the share of Hungarian rented sector is very small implies the question of whether Hungarian housing policies are tenure neutral. The research objective of the thesis is to compare Hungarian and Western private rented sectors to examine tenure neutrality in practice since very few academic studies attempted to make such comparative analyses in this policy-relevant issue. The study aims to identify the main differences in two areas: fiscal policies and regulatory policies and asks whether Hungarian housing policies are tenure neutral or not. The conclusion is that both pillars of Hungarian housing policies clearly favor owner-occupiers compared to all three Western countriesces which intend to maintain a relatively diverse tenure structures of the housing markets. Several policy recommendations arise: since there is a supply-side problem in Hungary, a reconsideration of taxation of private landlords is needed in the first place. The legal vacuum should be filled with government activity, mitigating and handling risks of the parties. |
| Supervisor | Weber, Andrea |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/olah_daniel.pdf |
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