Up to 61,000 Czech households face housing poverty - study

Up to 61,000 households, in which up to 165,000 people including 51,000 children live, face "housing poverty," which means they have makeshift accommodation or inconvenient flats or are homeless, according to a report on housing problems in the 10.7-million Czech Republic presented in the Senate on Tuesday. The worst situation is in cities, such as Prague, Brno and Ostrava, as well as in poor regions in north Bohemia and north Moravia. Also, more and more seniors have problems with housing and they make up one-fifth of inhabitants staying in cheap hostels, said analyst Jan Klusacek, from the Four Housing group, citing the report.