The right to housing used to be, and should once again be, a standard of a developed society. It is interesting to see what has happened to our society over the past 35 years. The previous social system had the right to decent housing established as a fundamental human right. Through the Velvet Revolution, we wanted to change the state’s social governance to a capitalist one, under the assumption that anyone who works will have enough money not only for a house but also for a car, a cottage, vacations, traveling the world, and other luxuries. How that turned out is something we now see with our own eyes and feel on our own skin. Homelessness, people in debt, 4.6 million foreclosures in Slovakia say it all. People are losing their family support, cars, health, lives… and all because they can’t afford to maintain the standard living conditions of an ordinary person under this regime. The life of debt has come to take its toll…
The new system of financing the population considers the right to decent housing as one of the main pillars of a dignified life. We need to enable people to have decent housing because some families today, even in Slovakia, are living in inhumane conditions. Such families will be able to apply to the relevant local authorities for the right to decent housing, which means they can renovate their apartment or house, or even buy a new one. The conditions of this right to decent housing will be made public in due time, but we already know that the right to decent housing up to 300,000 euros per family is being communicated.
Every shareholder of the SPDR has the right to decent housing. This right will be granted by the SPDR. They can buy a new apartment or house, or buy an old one and renovate it. They can renovate their current home where they live. A family can only use the right to decent housing up to 300,000 euros once. However, when children grow up and start their own families, this right will also be granted to them. Or if parents leave their house to their children and they move, for example, to the countryside, they can request the right to decent housing for themselves.
There are many variations in this sphere, and we can revisit them in the future and explain them in more detail. This article explains only the basic principle of the right to decent housing. Every family lives an individual story, when it comes to their living circumstances so their needs will be approached individually as well.
Can a person lose the right to decent housing?
Ingenuity knows no bounds, so it may happen that someone comes up with an inventive idea to abuse the right to decent housing, or to use it repeatedly. This attempt will be classified as theft or attempted theft, and in that case, the amount paid based on the right to decent housing will be considered a loan and the family will have to repay it. Alternatively, they will be excluded from the Cooperative.
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