Spain has the lowest proportion of rented housing — and officially controlled rented housing in particular — in Europe. It is also the country where young people find it most difficult to find a home of their own. For these reasons the Spanish Housing Plan 2005–2008 encourages rented housing and increases the stock of social housing to make a total of 720,000 homes available — 176,000 of them rented — over the four years of the Plan.
The six core strategies of the Plan are:
1. Consensus and coordination between social actors and public authorities.
2. Balancing home owning and renting while bringing empty accommodation onto the market.
3. Quality, accessibility and respect for the environment.
4. Occupation, sustainable development of land and conservation of the existing housing stock.
5. Sufficient resources, used efficiently. Clamp-down on fraud.
6. Sufficient stable housing stock with new kinds of social housing.
Key measures:
• Launching a young people’s housing scheme,
• Commitment to rented housing,
• Special attention to groups whose housing needs are greatest,
• Extra protection for disabled people and their families,
• Rehabilitation of degraded urban areas and historical inner cities,
• Fostering housing quality and sustainability.

13/07/2005

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Urban Policy > Housing > Housing policy

Housing market, Private rented housing