Empowering segregated roma communities: lessons from ’Shack to 3e house’ project

Abstract

Access to resources, inequalities in living conditions and housing shortages decades widely recognised as the main challenges for urban planning, especially countries. Since the fall of communism regime, the rapid socio-economic transformation caused similar problems also in post-socialist countries, however with different In Slovakia, there are more than 800 segregated neighbourhoods, housing 300,000 10% of Slovak population), predominantly of Roma ethnicity.