Panelház

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 2014, 31.6% of Hungarians lived in flats (according to data from Eurostat).

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