Social housing management: a long-term planning perspective on the example of a Polish municipality
Social housing management: a long-term planning perspective on the example of a Polish municipality

Summary/Abstract: Motives: Long-term planning and its implementation constitute the basis for effective social(municipal) housing management. Hence there is a need to monitor how these plans are drawn upand the degree to which they are implemented in municipalities so that they contribute optimallyto meeting local housing needs using the existing municipal housing stock (MHS).Aim: The research focused on assessing the implementation degree of the long-term municipal housingstock management program (MHSMP) of the city of Olsztyn in 2017–2021. The trends in social housingmanagement in Europe, in particular regarding the introduction of strategic business planning in thesocial housing sector, were taken into account.Results: In the MHS under study, there was a much faster decrease in the number of municipaldwellings than assumed in the plan and high deficits in social dwellings and temporary rooms.Sales of municipal dwellings were lower than planned, although revenues from this exceeded theplan. The operating costs of municipal facilities were determined by an over-planned increasein administrative costs while those for common properties turned out to be lower than planned.The renovation plan for municipal facilities was determined by the limited financial capacities of themunicipality and covered a small percentage of the actual renovation needs. It was found that theMHSMP under study did not represent a coherent concept for the MHS management in the long run,was overly formalized, and did not take into account the actual housing needs of the local society.Moreover, it lacked the characteristics of strategic business plans, such as being market-oriented,systematic, comprehensive, and proactive.

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