DISCOURSES ON SPAIN’S HOUSING CRISIS: A TYPOLOGICAL PROPOSAL

• Main Authors: Estefanía CALO, Raimundo OTERO-ENRÍQUEZ, Alberto RODRÍGUEZ-BARCÓN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bucharest 2021-02-01
• Series: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis
• Subjects: housing; crisis; discourses; spain
• Online Access: http://www.jurareview.ro/resources/pdf/volume_31_discourses_on_spain’s_housing_crisis:_a_typological_proposal_abstract.pdf

The recent economic crisis has had serious consequences on the housing system, making it necessary to rethink housing in our society from a multidisciplinary and multi-methodological point of view. Purely quantitative studies are insufficient to analyse the structural and social aspects of housing: it is necessary to define concepts, extent approaches and to understand that residential studies should also resort to qualitative analyses to achieve a further understanding of the situation. This paper is based on the analysis of 35 focused interviews about Spain’s housing crisis. The results show that there are only two discursive types: a critical discourse and a conservative discourse. In the dialectical confrontation of both views, some key factors for understanding the housing market are left out, which may lead to a new crisis scenario.