In Search of Common and Commons in Romanian Housing Tenure before and after EU Integration: Scrutinizing Public and Private Funding and Ownership

The present paper presents one of the most discussable approaches in the former communist countries’ transition the common relationship between state-led investment and local development concerning the accomplishment of the aims of housing policy. The issue of housing policies and the concept of state-led/ private investment is therefore twofold: first 1. to identify the local. Furthermore, the new housing development enabled in the transition period encouraged the emergence of housing construction undergoing a major reorientation towards the growth of local state budget allocations. Considering the EU integration process, the articles argues that depending on the institutional and political attitude in a given period, the housing policy may rely on one or more compulsory measures as an important part of the implementation process at local level involving legal arrangement in favor of housing development and the measure in which state-led investments variable is connected to the private investments variables. The study points out that housing policy is positively affected by the quality of local public interest, the private sector orientation and infrastructure that under a comparative local budget analysis and implementation, public investment must either increase or decrease the demand for new homes built in the community