Public urbanistic policies to favor accessing to social housing

Abstract

Objectives: This paper aims to analyze the importance of the urbanism planning and its relation with the effectiveness of the recently approved Spanish Housing Plan 2018-2021 of measures to favor access to dignified housing as a welfare state policy.

Material and methods: With this purpose the paper shows that the origin of the access to social housing depends on the urbanism activity using the method of the study of the enacted law with a comparative perspective, analizing regulations currently in force and the previous ones.

Results: The main result of this research underlines that legislator must take in account this relation when approving urbanism regulations with the finallity of improving efectiveness of Housing State Planning.

Conclusions: The central discussion and recommendation is focused on improving urbanism regulations in order to ease the real access to dignified housing as a goal to lead to more effectiveness in the Housing Planning application.