The subjective dimension of the right to housing of people with access difficulties in the free market and its realization through a public housing stock

Abstract

The traditional configuration of the right to housing as a mere guiding principle is being called into question both by the reality of the demand for a new public housing policy that guarantees access to housing for an increasing number of people who cannot acquire it on the free market, and by the regulatory specification, both by the different Agendas (Agenda 2030, Spanish Urban Agenda), and by the housing laws of those Autonomous Communities with greater sensitivity (and financial capacity), as well as by the Draft Law on the Right to Housing. This new conception as a subjective right requires determining both its objective facet, aimed at expanding the public rental housing market, and its subjective facet, which goes beyond simple technical criteria linked to a number of m2 per person.