La provisionalidad del régimen de protección oficial de la vivienda pública en España

Abstract

The underlying hypothesis of this paper is that the housing is one of the key pillars of the Welfare Sate, having the same importance than the education right or the health right. According to this hypothesis, it would be desirable that governments set up mechanisms that allow the existence of a park of public housing. This public housing park should be comparable to the park of public schools and hospitals that already exists. This mean that the park of social hoses should be accessible to the large sectors of population, it should be of quality and it should be permanent. The article reviews the Spanish public policies about housing during the last three decades. They are mainly characterized by the setting of successive “Housing Plans” (Planes de Vivienda), routed in two principles. One is the public financing for a specific type of “protected houses” for selling, built by private property developers. The other is the temporary character of the protecting regime for this kind of houses, that leads them to feed the free housing market.