Subtitle:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały 10 (2011)

Contributor:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 315-329 ; Eng. summary

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Abstract:

Throughout the whole period of Communist Poland, housing problems mirrored the image of socio-economic condition of the state and the situation of its inhabitants. Despite the evidence of censuses conducted in People’s Poland indicating progressing improvement in standards of dwelling houses and their decreasing overpopulation, in the 1970s the feeling of unsatisfied housing needs was prevailing. No wonder that in the face of constant discontent with the housing situation in Poland, all ways to relieve the housing tensions increased in importance, including the letters “to Warsaw”.Another critical aspect that was brought up in the analysed correspondence, besides the low standards of dwellings, was the necessity to separate families or to live in the excessively overcrowded apartment for many long years.The authorities’ responses described in the source material to those housing supplications were only a drop in the ocean of housing needs, an ephemeral reply to the most dramatic situations and neither solved nor helped to solve the global problem of thousands of people.

Relation:

Polska 1944/45-1989 : studia i materiały

Volume:

10

Start page:

315

End page:

329

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:59714 ; 2450-8357

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. B.155/10 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. B.156/10 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Access:

Open