The topic of my thesis is the protected rent and its chronological presentation. In the introduction there is an exposition of the problem of protected rent. In the second chapter of the work, the emergence of the right of occupancy, which is a predecessor to the protected rent, the objects and subjects of the right of occupancy and the way of acquiring the right of occupancy are explained. In the third chapter, there is a review of the transformation of the right of occupancy into the right of protected rent during the nineties of the last century. In the fourth chapter, there is a review of the decision Statileo v. Croatia and its significance for Croatian law and the protected rent relationship. In the fifth chapter, two decision of Croatian courts that were passed after the judgment of Statileo v. Croatia are discussed, where the importance of the previously mentioned judgment for the protected rent relationship is indicated. In the sixth chapter, there is an analysis of the Rent Act, which was passed in 2018, an analysis of the same Act, and the author's comment on the legislator's solutions to the problem of protected rent. The seventh chapter reviews the decision of the Constitutional Court of Croatia which repealed the 2018 Rent Act. In the eighth chapter, the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights after the repeal of the 2018 Rent Act is briefly presented, in the ninth chapter there is the conclusion of the work, and finally in the tenth chapter there is a list of literature and sources of the work.