Housing Rent Control at the Micro Level: Perspectives from Southeast and East Central Europe, 1918–1924

Abstract

This paper presents both statistical and qualitative analyses examining the micro-level repercussions of state intervention, specifically the implementation of rent control systems and requisitioning in the housing rental markets of Southeast- and East-Central European regions in the aftermath of the First World War. The numerical assessment relies on the calculation of the residual postwar purchasing power parity of prewar rents, while the qualitative analysis endeavors to reconstruct the daily dynamics of coexistence among conflicting parties, encompassing instances of extreme intimidation and violence.

Keywords

• rent control system
• inflation
• bulgaria
• yugoslavia
• czechoslovakia
• poland
• interwar period