Housing and welfare in Catalonia, Spain
García-Lamarca, Melissa LU
(2023)
p.142-156
- Abstract
Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, is a homeownership society. The most recent official statistics (2011) state that 74 per cent of the population are homeowners, 20 per cent are tenants and 2 per cent live in social housing. Related to tenure status, the state of housing in Catalonia – the second wealthiest autonomous community in Spain – has undergone noteworthy shifts in the first decades of the 21st century. Housing production has swung from record high to record low levels, and a decade-long housing crisis has generated unprecedented levels of evictions and housing precarity. Pressure from highly organized housing movements has prompted policy change to mitigate the latter. This overview of the current state of housing in Catalonia... (More)
Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, is a homeownership society. The most recent official statistics (2011) state that 74 per cent of the population are homeowners, 20 per cent are tenants and 2 per cent live in social housing. Related to tenure status, the state of housing in Catalonia – the second wealthiest autonomous community in Spain – has undergone noteworthy shifts in the first decades of the 21st century. Housing production has swung from record high to record low levels, and a decade-long housing crisis has generated unprecedented levels of evictions and housing precarity. Pressure from highly organized housing movements has prompted policy change to mitigate the latter. This overview of the current state of housing in Catalonia illustrates a paradox: on the one hand, the region has adopted one of the most progressive tenancy laws in Europe and far-reaching cooperative housing programmes in Spain; on the other hand, the region reflects Spain’s long history of supporting homeowners and private housing while systematically undersupplying social housing.
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- author
- García-Lamarca, Melissa
LU
- publishing date
- 2023-12-15
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- The Routledge Handbook of Housing and Welfare
- pages
- 15 pages
- publisher
- CRC Press/Balkema
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85183241919
- ISBN
- 9781003830375
- 9781032074337
- DOI
- 10.1201/9781003212690-12
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Martin Grander and Mark Stephens; individual chapters, the contributors. All rights reserved.
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