Recent trends in housing policy in Spain
Abstract
Spanish housing policy has had over recent years a number of controversial actions in relation with the answering to difficulties in housing access of large sectors of Spanish society. The analysis of the instruments used shows the lack of adequate interventions to overcome the housing bubble of the last years and been adapted to the changes generated by the new needs of the young, elderly, foreign workers and poor households. The trends followed in political decisions show the real difficulty in getting an effective change to boost rent social housing and the alternative to convert the proceedings on the supply of land, taxation, financing and direct intervention itself. The approach of a new trend in State’s housing policy is counteracting by the scare economic resources applied to them.
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