Print Email Facebook Twitter Recent changes in Spanish housing policies: Subsidized owner-occupancy as a new tenure sector? Title Recent changes in Spanish housing policies: Subsidized owner-occupancy as a new tenure sector? Author Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. Saizarbitoria, I.H. Etxarri, A.E. Faculty OTB Research Institute Department Housing Systems Date 2010-12-31 Abstract The conventional model of social housing in Spain is a peculiarity within European housing policy, in that it is almost entirely owner-occupied. Subsidized owneroccupancy housing maintains the status of social housing for a set number of years, during which time it cannot be sold against market prices. After that period, its status changes, and the housing concerned becomes part of the free housing market. However, recent developments in Spanish housing policy suggest that this model might change in the future. In some Spanish regions, subsidized owner-occupancy housing is now considered as a separate and permanent tenure category and not as a temporal subsidy arrangement. This paper discusses the background and the possible implications of this new policy perspective. Subject Spainhousing policysubsidized owner-occupancy housing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:380ce053-5a18-4ee3-8157-deef86b1918c Publisher Springer ISSN 1566-4910 Source Journal of housing and the built environment, 25 (1), 2010 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) Delft University of Technology Files PDF 254326.pdf 338.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:380ce053-5a18-4ee3-8157-deef86b1918c/datastream/OBJ/view