Editing Public housing (section)

=== Romania ===
{{Main|Systematization (Romania)}}
[[File:2017 Victory Square, Bucharest.jpg|thumb|Government built housing in [[Bucharest]], Romania.|alt=]]

The skyline of many Romanian cities became dominated by standardized apartment blocks under the former communist government's policy of tower bloc construction. Beginning in 1974, systematization consisted largely of the demolition and reconstruction of existing villages, towns, and cities, in whole or in part, with the stated goal of turning Romania into a "multilaterally developed socialist society". In 2012, 2.7&nbsp;million flats date from the communist period, accounting for 37% of total housing in Romania and for about 70% in cities and towns. Subsequent to post-communist privatization, the homeownership rate in this form of housing reached of 99.9%.<ref>NIS, 2010 Statistical Yearbook 2010: Time Series 1990–2009 (National Institute of Statistics: Bucharest) http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/pages/anuarstatistic2010.en.do {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113154228/http://www.insse.ro/cms/rw/pages/anuarstatistic2010.en.do |date=13 November 2012 }}</ref> The new Home Owner Associations (HOAs) were challenged internally by the cumulative effect of defaulting contributions, lack of affordability and the established practice of casual resident service in HOAs, which often triggered mismanagement. On the other hand, HOAs were challenged from outside by non-effective mechanisms to address their internal problems, such as non-existent fast court procedures against defaulting, poor financial assistance to socially disadvantaged households and a private sector unprepared to take on condominium management.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Soaita | first1 = A. M. | year = 2012 | title = Strategies for in-situ home improvement in Romanian large housing estates | url = http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/147159/1/147159.pdf| journal = Housing Studies | volume = 27 | issue = 7| pages = 1008–1030 | doi = 10.1080/02673037.2012.725833 | hdl = 10023/4562 | s2cid = 52208020 }}</ref>