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Public
housing is an architectural opportunity, both for the city and for its end
clients. Any building in a complex context as a city affects an entire system
and most buildings in the city are built by private clients only having the
urban plan to balance the inherited conflict between the private interest and the
public interest. Although the main reason to introduce a parallel system of
public housing is to balance the free market, and give a fair housing opportunity
for the young, it also can be used to achieve urban goals, otherwise difficult
to obtain, and as an experimental laboratory for new concepts, materials and
construction methods, which are clearly in the public interest.
In
Spain, as in many other European countries, the public housing, both as
apartments for rent and for sale, is an ongoing system since the end of the second
world war. In Spain in particular, due to the housing boom and the strong rise of the housing prices the public
housing became a very important and dominant issue, having lots of energy, inovation and
money put in to it, especialy in the decade previous to the economic crisis (august 2007).