Public Housing Assistance for the Economically Marginalized Households as an Element of the Social Security System in Poland

Abstract

The purpose of the article is reflection about the place of the housing security in the system of social security in contemporary Poland. The author put up a thesis that with the civilization development of the Polish society, social policy in Poland should gradually tend to extension of guarantees of the minimal level of social security, in this to extension of scope of public guarantees of housing security for the ecomically marginalized households. In the article the contemporary level of public housing assistance is presented as a starting point to planning the activities which can improve effectiveness of this assistanc