Where you live is more than just an address on your ID card. It affects which schools are within reach, whether you can get to work without a car, how long you have to wait to see a doctor, and how much you need to earn to afford housing. On their own, none of these factors necessarily represents a major barrier. But when several disadvantages overlap, they can significantly narrow the opportunities available to a person throughout their life.

Key takeaways:

• Where people live has a significant impact on their opportunities in education, employment, housing, healthcare and access to public services.
• The greatest problems arise when several disadvantages are concentrated in the same area and reinforce one another, with their effects potentially carrying over from one generation to the next.
• Regional averages often conceal major differences between individual municipalities and smaller regions.
• Regional policy should target support according to local conditions and better coordinate different areas of public policy.

Analysis – Irena Krcháková

The analysis is in PDF under the link below.