More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.

Since the 1950s Spain has developed a set of policies aimed at stimulating ownership through subsidies mainly in the form of interest rates or mortgage quotas to developers and households neglecting other forms of housing provision, for instance social rent. That system provided one off benefit to t...

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Authors: Pareja Eastaway, Montserrat; Sánchez-Martínez, Teresa
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/215848
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215848
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Espanya
Política de l'habitatge
Habitatge públic
Spain
Housing policy
Public housing
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description Since the 1950s Spain has developed a set of policies aimed at stimulating ownership through subsidies mainly in the form of interest rates or mortgage quotas to developers and households neglecting other forms of housing provision, for instance social rent. That system provided one off benefit to the developer and/or the purchaser and could not be reused to help other households. The financial crisis in 2008 evidenced the weakness of the Spanish housing system in providing affordable and secure shelter by means other than homeownership. The existent housing provision system failed to avoid the large number of evictions while simultaneously banks became owners of a large amount of empty dwellings. To some extent, the severity of the situation exerted considerable political pressure to devise a new framework for action to alleviate the housing problem in Spain. In this paper based on the post -crisis evidence we argue the need to reformulate approaches to provide adequate and affordable housing for certain collectives in Spain.
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spelling More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain. Pareja Eastaway, Montserrat Sánchez-Martínez, Teresa Espanya Política de l'habitatge Habitatge públic Spain Housing policy Public housing Since the 1950s Spain has developed a set of policies aimed at stimulating ownership through subsidies mainly in the form of interest rates or mortgage quotas to developers and households neglecting other forms of housing provision, for instance social rent. That system provided one off benefit to the developer and/or the purchaser and could not be reused to help other households. The financial crisis in 2008 evidenced the weakness of the Spanish housing system in providing affordable and secure shelter by means other than homeownership. The existent housing provision system failed to avoid the large number of evictions while simultaneously banks became owners of a large amount of empty dwellings. To some extent, the severity of the situation exerted considerable political pressure to devise a new framework for action to alleviate the housing problem in Spain. In this paper based on the post -crisis evidence we argue the need to reformulate approaches to provide adequate and affordable housing for certain collectives in Spain. Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215848
spellingShingle More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
Pareja Eastaway, Montserrat
Espanya
Política de l'habitatge
Habitatge públic
Spain
Housing policy
Public housing
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title More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
title_full More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
title_fullStr More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
title_full_unstemmed More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
title_short More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
title_sort More social housing? A critical analysis of social housing provision in Spain.
topic Espanya
Política de l'habitatge
Habitatge públic
Spain
Housing policy
Public housing
topic_facet Espanya
Política de l'habitatge
Habitatge públic
Spain
Housing policy
Public housing
url https://hdl.handle.net/2445/215848