Management of public-private housing condominiums: the case of municipalities in the Warmia and Mazury province in Poland

Andrzej Muczyński

doi:10.31648/aspal.8303

Published: 2022-12-141

Vol. 21 No. 4 (2022)

Management of public-private housing condominiums: the case of municipalities in the Warmia and Mazury province in Poland

Andrzej Muczyński

Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum

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https://doi.org/10.31648/aspal.8303

Abstract

Privatization of municipal housing in Poland has led to the emergence of public-private housing condominiums. The aim of the study was to investigate the ownership structures of common property management entities in such condominiums in Poland. The intended investigation was conducted on the sample of the 30 largest urban municipalities located in the Warmia and Mazury province. The empirical data was collected by questionnaire interviews using the public information access technique. The aim of the study was achieved through hierarchical cluster analysis using the agglomerative method. The results showed that the structures of common property management entities in studied housing condominiums varied in nature. In most municipalities surveyed, these structures were dominated by municipal entities. However, there is a growing group of municipalities where the surveyed structures have been dominated by private property managers. The in-house management model proved to be not very popular in the surveyed sample of municipalities.

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common property management, public-private condominiums, municipal housing, cities

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Muczyński, A. (2022). Management of public-private housing condominiums: the case of municipalities in the Warmia and Mazury province in Poland. Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Administratio Locorum, 21(4), 549–560. https://doi.org/10.31648/aspal.8303

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