Panelház
Hungarian term for concrete block flats
Panelház (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈpɒnɛlɦaːz], often shortened to panel) is a Hungarian term for a type of concrete block of flats (panel buildings), built in the People's Republic of Hungary and other Eastern Bloc countries. They are also known as Plattenbau in German, Panelák in Czech and Slovak, Blok in Polish, and Bloc in Romanian.
It was the main urban housing type in the Socialist era, which still dominates the Hungarian cityscapes.
According to the 2011 census, there were 829,177 panel apartments in Hungary (18.9% of the dwellings) that were home to 1,741,577 people (17.5% of the total population). Panelház are not the only type of block of flats in Hungary; as of 2025, 26.5% of Hungarians lived in flats (according to data from Eurostat).
History
After World War II a serious housing crisis developed in Hungary due to rapid population growth and urbanization. The exodus of the rural population from rural areas after the collectivization in the late 1940s and the early 1950s was particularly important as a source of migration. Budapest and other cities became overcrowded, and the Communist government eventually responded. After several study visits and conventions, in the early 1960s Hungary bought the large-panel system (LPS) from the Soviet Union and Denmark. The Danish technology was known as the Larsen-Nielsen system and was a common housing method in Western Europe, Turkey, and Hong Kong.
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