Ferkai András: Housing Estates - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

After World War I

architectural heritage? A carefully-wrought plan for assessment and regulation was drawn up in 2004. However much circumspection went into the plan, it is obvious that much more can be achieved by self-regulation on the residents' and consistent rigour on the authorities' part. As yet there are few promising signs in either respect. Stricter law enforcement might help, but persuasion would be more productive than bans, as would be the exploration of mutual- ly-acceptable architectural solutions connected to some kind of incentive.

AFTER WORLD WAR I

Government-built housing estates

With the construction of new homes suspended during World War I, housing shortages grew worse. In 1918, the government of Mihály Károlyi set up the National Housing Council under the Ministry of Commerce. The National Housing Committee, which acted as the executive organ of the Council, decreed the building of ten thousand homes on clusters of plots acquired from the municipality of Budapest. The issue of housing estates also appeared on the agenda

■ Apartment block "I" on the Hate houóing e&tate on Pongrác út

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