The own research results of needs estimation for municipal housing in Olsztyn are presented in the paper. The quantityand and the structure of this application is qualified in the context of local rules and criteria of rendering aid of housing – on the part of the city households with bad financial and housing-conditions. The object of research determined the population of households which folded petitions for the allowance of the muncipal housing resources in Olsztyn, in years 2001–2005. To qualitative detailed analyses, the group 395 households applying for municipal locals in the 2005 year. The methodics of research is leant on questionnaire interview embracing the full number of the examined population. Results quantitative analyses showed successively deepening the divergence among the real application on municipal flats in Olsztyn and with possibilities of his cover. Analyses of the structure of the community of applicants allowed besides for the execution of the qualitative estimation of the realization degree of accepted criteria of rendering of housing aid. Results of introduced empirical research should be used for qualifying of the housing-policy of the city, in this especially during construction of the programme for management of municipal houusing resources.

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