According to the analysis, over one hundred thousand employees in Prague could have a rental apartment | Company | News | Prague Gossip
Over a hundred thousand members of professions live in Prague, and the city, in addition to the socially weak, prioritizes them in its housing policy and offers them rental apartments. This follows from an analysis commissioned by the city’s Prague Development Company. Among the preferred professions are workers in education, healthcare and social services or firefighters, policemen and constables.
Prague is reported to have about 1.28 million inhabitants, in reality there are about three hundred thousand more living in the metropolis.
Prague has been facing a housing crisis in recent years. The municipality has around seven thousand apartments, another 23 thousand are managed by the city district. According to a 2018 analysis by KPMG, after 1991, 194,000 apartments came into ownership in Prague, most of which were sold during privatizations. The current expiring administration of the municipality stopped privatization, but some city districts, which make their own decisions about apartments, continue them to a greater or lesser extent.
The city plans to build new municipal rental apartments, which are to a large extent intended to serve precisely the professions that are necessary for the operation of the metropolis and may have problems securing themselves on the market in view of the rise in housing prices in the capital. For this purpose, the municipality established PDS as a contributory organization, which is now preparing about 60 housing projects on municipal land.
According to the director of the company, Petr Urbanek, the analysis showed that the distribution of preferred professions is relatively uneven in the metropolis. “This is mainly related to the distribution of large hospitals and university campuses as places with thousands of workers in one location – it is mainly Prague 1 and 2, Prague 5, Prague 6 and Prague 8,” stated Urban guy. According to the analysis, in Prague 1 there are about 370 members of key professions per 1,000 inhabitants, in Prague 2 there are 297 and in Prague 5 there are 137 of them.
The authors of the analysis used public sources to determine the number of employees. According to the document, there are about 49,200 employees in the healthcare sector in the metropolis and 43,400 in education. In social services, the analysis states 6,150 employees, and in the security forces, which include the police and city constables, there are 5,900. According to the document, there are about 840 fire protection employees in the capital.
According to the Czech Statistical Office, Prague has approximately 1.28 million inhabitants. However, as the city’s Institute of Planning and Development found out some time ago from anonymized data mobile operators, there are actually about three hundred thousand more of them. In addition, approximately another two hundred thousand Central Bohemians commute to the metropolis daily.