Editing Public housing (section)

=== Spain ===
[[File:Viviendas de Protección Oficial en Astillero.jpg|250px|thumb|Public housing, winner of an [[environmental design]] award, in {{lang|es|[[El Astillero]], [[Cantabria]]|italic=no}}, Spain.]]
[[File:Barriodelasflores5.jpg|thumb|Public housing in [[La Coruña]], [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], ([[Spain]]).]]

Spaniards' reluctance to home rental, and government spending cuts in the 1980s, reduced rented public housing in Spain to a minimum. Rented public houses were relatively common in the [[Francoist Spain|Franco era]] (1939–75). With the advent of [[History of Spain (1975–present)|democracy]] and the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978|1978 Constitution]], the right to housing became guaranteed, and the management of social housing depended mostly on the [[Autonomous communities of Spain|autonomous regions]].<ref name="housingeurope.eu">{{Cite web|title=Social Housing in Europe {{!}} Housing Europe|url=https://www.housingeurope.eu/resource-124/social-housing-in-europe|access-date=2021-12-07|website=www.housingeurope.eu|language=en|archive-date=7 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207193832/https://www.housingeurope.eu/resource-124/social-housing-in-europe|url-status=live}}</ref> This resulted in a wide variety of laws, which make the issue highly dependent on the region.

In spite of this, a scheme for {{lang|es|[[:es:Viviendas de protección oficial|viviendas de protección oficial]]}} (VPO) has been widely used, consisting of local councils allowing for building contractors and developers to build in public sites or with public loans on condition that a certain percentage of apartments remain subsidized and under control of the local authorities. This is known as {{lang|es|VPO de promoción privada}} ('privately developed'), as opposed to the {{lang|es|VPO de promoción pública}} ('publicly developed'), in which the whole property is owned and managed by a government authority. Publicly developed housing is made almost exclusively for owner-occupation, not rent, and made up 11% of the housing stock in 2010.<ref name="housingeurope.eu"/>

A new plan ({{lang|es|Plan estatal español de vivienda y rehabilitación para el período 2009–2012}}) was put forward by the {{lang|es|[[José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero|Rodríguez Zapatero]]|italic=no}} government, aiming to make near a million homes available for public housing, relying both on new construction and refurbishment of unused houses.
	
Major parts of Spanish cities have been expanded {{citation needed|date=June 2018}} in the last 20 years with projects heavily dependent on public and collective housing projects, which has stressed its importance inside the main architecture schools, that have answered the challenge with the development of several specialized courses and formation plans, such as the Madrid UPM – ETH Zurich combined MCH Master in Collective Housing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mchmaster.com/ |title=MCH: Master in Collective Housing |language=es |access-date=2018-06-06 |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612211149/https://www.mchmaster.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>