An estimated 232,000 people live in 90,160 households without a bath, shower or indoor toilet.

Of the chief indices of housing poverty this was the only one which has improved largely in the past ten years, having fallen from 660,000.

Eurostat says there are 475,000 households in Hungary where the roof leaks, the walls are mouldy or the floor is rotting, with 1.2 million people living in such conditions.

In addition, residents of 328,000 households cannot afford to heat their homes sufficiently.

An estimated 1,670,000 people live in overcrowded properties. The majority of families of four to five live in such places, while almost all families of six or more live in overcrowded conditions.

One definition of housing poverty is that the resident spends 40% of their income on housing, as is the case in 105,000 households.

If this limit were defined at 30%, then one-third of the country would belong here.

Zsolt Szegfalvi, the Hungarian executive director of Habitat for Humanity, said the government has at last recognised that there is a housing problem, as 10 of the 21 points in the government's economic stimulus package deal with housing, and the Budapest city council is also addressing this issue. 

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