Options of Preventing and Tackling Social Exclusion in Housing in the Czech Republic

This thesis focuses on describing the setting of the Czech system of prevention and assistance to persons excluded from the standard housing or directly threatened by this exclusion, while attention is paid to social work, social services, social benefits and social housing, which is then given special emphasis. In addition to the general description of these four parts of the system, formal institutions in the form of laws, regulations and conceptions related to them are also described in this thesis. Another objective of this thesis is linked directly to the issue of social housing. The thesis describes the functioning of the social housing sector in the Czech Republic, drawing attention to a problem related to the lack of an institutional framework relating to social housing. The thesis also describes The Conception of Social Housing in the Czech Republic 2015-2025 (Koncepce sociálního bydlení ČR 2015-2025), which primarily defines a system of Czech social housing. In the research part of this thesis was used the case study design, which seeks to map out the possibilities of housing /accommodation for low-income households and households excluded from standard housing and functioning of the system of prevention and tackling social exclusion in housing in practice at the local level, for which a..