The text outlines the reasoning of representatives of the Institute of Social Economy (IGS) in the area from early courts on housing issues by understanding, determining and defining municipal and social policy for those regarding housing and settlement policy considered from today's perspective. The issues of housing, municipal, social and settlement policy contained in the text are only a small spectrum of residence. It does not include the work of representatives of the IGS focusing on various aspects and cross-sections of these types of policies and works on demographic and economic phenomena and processes constituting a significant cause and at the same time the effect of shaping the housing and settlement situation deciding to inhabiting. The selection of publications cited in the text illustrates the most important substantive content in the adopted consideration.