What is it about?
This article explains the challenges of managing owner-occupied flats in the communist-built housing estates: how the collective system of utility provision has been adapted for individual metering; and how residents finance the maintenance of their common property (lifts, roofs, halls).
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Why is it important?
This paper challenges both the idea of the 'tragedy of of the commons' and the 'tragedy of the private goods' , and it is relevant to the whole post-communist area.
Perspectives
Being a flat-resident myself, I worried prior to the fieldwork: will I be able to observe and elicit new insights from what I was already knowing too well? This is how I learn being self-reflective on my positionality as a researcher.
Dr Adriana Mihaela Soaita
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This page is a summary of: Strategies forInSituHome Improvement in Romanian Large Housing Estates, Housing Studies, October 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.725833.
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