Vivienda pública y estado de bienestar en España: balance y estado de la cuestión en la época del COVID-19.

The current research focuses on the analysis of the housing public policy trajectory in Spain from 1956 to 2020, emphasizing the social and residential emergency over sixty years aiming to show up the current conjuncture and future challenges in the post-pandemic scenario. According to that, it has been developed an exhaustive search in statistics and bibliographical legal databases. The paper deeps on the public housing policy through the different frameworks of actions over sixty years, their comparison to the European context, and the introduction of the geography of housing emergency aggravated by the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. From the mentioned analysis, it is suggested the necessity to impulse, regarding the several Recovery Post-COVID-19 Plans, ambitious public housing and rental plans in Spain, as a way to contribute to repair during the next decade the lack of public housing policies aligned with the surrounding European states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]