Social Housing Management Models in Spain

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Núria Lambea Llop
Housing Chair, University Rovira i Virgili

Spain is one of the European countries with the lowest social rented stock, merely 2% compared to the EU-15 average of 11.7%. Current Spanish housing policies aim to increase this percentage but it is essential that this is accompanied by an efficient social housing management system.

The main aim of this paper is to introduce the Spanish models of social housing management and to point out two main features: the variety of providers (public and private) and the fact that social rented housing is mostly provided by public entities (either regional or local). Apart from the structural description this paper also highlights, as well as existing good practice, the weak points of this management system, which could be improved through public-private partnership schemes for managing social housing.

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Social housing, management, housing providers, viviendas de protección oficial (VPOs), housing policy, housing association, public-private partership scheme.

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Lambea Llop, Núria. “Social Housing Management Models in Spain”. Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, no. 52, pp. 115-28, https://raco.cat/index.php/RCDP/article/view/310459.
Author Biography

Núria Lambea Llop, Housing Chair, University Rovira i Virgili

Núria Lambea LlopDoctoral Researcher, Housing Chair, Rovira i Virgili UniversityAvda. Catalunya, 3543002 TarragonaEmail: nuria.lambea@urv.catNúria Lambea Llop is a graduate in Law (2013) and obtained a Master’s Degree in Business and Contractual Law (2014) from Rovira i Virgili University. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the Housing Chair, University Rovira i Virgili. She has been a researcher of a project from the Escola d’Adminisrtació Pública de Catalunya (2015). Ms Lambea Llop was an invited researcher at OTB Research Institute for Housing, Urban and Mobility Studies in Delft, The Netherlands (2014). Her lines of research are management of social housing, housing policies and intermediate tenures.  She has presented in international conferences in Germany, Portugal and France as well as in a number of seminars and workshops in Spain.  At the moment she is also engaged in different projects such as intermediate tenures in Catalonia (Centre d’Estudis Jurídics I Formació Especialitzada) and renovation of housing tenures (Spanish Ministry of Economy). She is the author of several articles in Spain and France.