Polityka mieszkaniowa i rynek mieszkaniowy w Polsce - gospodarstwa domowe w czasie pandemii COVID-19

Abstract

The article presents possible impact of the housing policy and the housing market on the situation of households during COVID-19. This impact was estimated as relatively small, with at least four levels of constraints with very different generality and scope and nature of the impact. These restrictions relate to the levels of the market paradigm of economic growth, housing policy understood in its strict sense, the positioning of households in complex socio-economic relations, and the investment and construction process. It was assumed that with the indicated restrictions, changes in the housing policy introduced in Poland in 2020 and 2021 and possible market reactions to them can only be considered in terms of the likely impact on households at an unknown time of the impact of the pandemic. Market reactions were illustrated with selected flow quantities regarding the number and investor structure of housing construction projects commenced after the year 2019. The aim of the paper is to signal and illustrate with available data the inadequacy of the current policy and mechanisms of the housing market in Poland. The general method of elaboration is based on querying, analyzing, and evaluating the up-to-date information in this regard from available sources.