Public spendings on housing in Hungary, 1990-2026

This database summarises central government expenditures on housing in Hungary, from the official Budget Acts and Closing Accounts Acts and other sources (e.g. Hungarian Central Statistical Office).

The aim of the database was to determine how much money the government has spent on housing since 1990 and how much of this expenditure was socially targeted, i.e. how much was used to reduce housing poverty. The database organises publicly available central budget data into a machine-readable database. Thus, it is also making the government’s management of public funds more transparent.

The database was created for Habitat for Humanity Hungary’s Annual Report on Housing Poverty 2021 (Hungarian / English), updated for the 2025 report. Further methodological details are included in the 2021 annual report.

File list

• description.rtf - Detailed description of the database (in Hungarian and English).
• lakaskiadasok_values_long.csv - Values of the detailed budget expenditures. Data for each year are in the rows of the table. Budget expenditures were grouped. Data sources are also included in this table. Expenditures are presented in both current and 2025 prices. 
• lakaskiadasok_values_wide.csv - Values of the detailed budget expenditures. Data for each year are in the columns of the table. Budget expenditures were grouped. Data sources are also included in this table. Expenditures are presented in both current and 2025 prices. 
• lakaskiadasok_variables.csv - Description of the variables of the detailed budget expenditures, both in English and in Hungarian. 
• lakastamogatasok_values.csv - Values of the database on the ‘Housing subsidies’ budget line and the data source of each cell. Expenditures are presented in both current and 2024 prices.
• lakastamogatasok_variables.csv - Description of the variables on the expenditures of the ‘Housing subsidies’ budget line, both in English and Hungarian. 
• price_deflator.csv - Value of the consumer price index used for the conversion to 2025 prices (2025=100).

The dataset and its description is fully bilingual (Hungarian and English).