The economic dimension of housing exclusion: Catalonia in the European context

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.12.34.4695

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Housing, residential exclusion, housing policy, housing system

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyse the ability of the Catalan population to meet their housing costs and the scope of Catalan housing policy to address those needs in comparison to the European Union (EU 27) countries considering their different welfare state regimes. This work is mainly based on the results of the EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Life Conditions) and ECVHP-2011 (Survey on Living Conditions and Habits of the Catalan Population) surveys. The study confirms that the housing bubble boom and bust and the subsequent financial crisis have had a strong impact on the ability of the Catalan population to afford housing costs, particularly among people at risk of moderate poverty and renters. In the EU context, the Catalan housing crisis, greater than the Spanish one, is only comparable to that of Greece, and to a lesser extent, of UK and Denmark. The increasing levels of housing exclusion in Catalonia, however, have not led to greater public intervention, and in 2011 the share of social housing and the level of development of the Catalan housing allowance system were among the lowest in the EU

Author Biography

Jordi Bosch Meda, Pompeu Fabra University

Jordi Bosch Meda, Ph.D. in Architecture from Polytechnic University of Catalonia (1999-2005), and B.A. degree in Management and Public Administration (2006-2010), and a B.A. degree in Political Science (2010-2012) from University of Barcelona. His fields of research are housing systems & policy, residential exclusion, and urban planning. He has published in these areas 9 books and over 30 articles and book chapters. At international level, he has carried out several studies, including those for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, USA), Center for Housing Policy (University of York, UK), EU Commission, European Observatory on Homelessness (FEANTSA, European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless) and Shizuoka University of Art and Culture (Japan). His work has been awarded several times in Spain, including the 4th National Urban Planning Awards (Special Mention, 2012), the Humbert Torres Prize (2011), the Doctoral Thesis Award from the Government of Catalonia (2006), the Angel Ballesteros Prize (2006), the Rogeli Duocastella Prize (2005), the Young Architects Prize (2004 & 2000), and the Carles Pi i Sunyer Prize (2004). He is currently Head of Urban Renewal of Government of Catalonia and associated professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University.

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Published

2017-07-02

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Year 12, issue 34 (Jun. 2017)

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