Collective processes to activate and use empty houses in Spain

Abstract

This abstract is focused on the search for possible alternatives for the activation and putting into use of empty housing spaces. An urban problem of the magnitude of the number of vacant dwellings in Spanish territory, 3.4 million, and the significant lack of housing and social vulnerability of the Spanish population. Faced with this reality, the research considers that these empty spaces are an opportunity to rethink the inhabited space and its adaptation to the needs and ways of life of people. It also has as a starting point the processes of social organization and collective management, which it considers are key to the necessary socio-urban regeneration. To this end, it is proposed the identification of strategies to activate and put into use empty spaces that have been managed by processes of collective organization.