The Assessment of Tools Forming Housing Policy in Poland Using the Example of the Government's Mdm Programme

Abstract

One of the most important needs in the hierarchy of human needs is the housing need. Virtually all European countries fulfil a pro-family housing policy by using various tools to support investments of this kind. Housing policy is also conducted in Poland. In spite of the huge popularity of the TBS (Social Housing Association) and Rodzina na swoim (A Family's Own Place) programmes, the demand for flats in Poland is still high. The authors of this paper tried to assess the impact of the implementation of the MdM (Mieszkania dla Młodych-Home for Young People) programme on the housing market in the biggest cities of Polish regions and in peripheral areas. The level of the relationship between the level of subsidies used in this programme and areas of newly built flats for the indicated spatial units was demonstrated with the use of statistical methods. The result of the completed analyses is the assessment of the effectiveness of the programme with regard to the housing policy being adopted, and the analysis of its effectiveness with regard to spaces with different levels of social and economic development.