An interesting model of social housing in the Franco regime: the apartment building for the national army staff in 9 and 11, Severo Ochoa Street, Granada

Abstract

The shortage of reasonably priced, hygienic housing in towns has been a matter of worry and study for governments and public administrations since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Thus, there is a long Spanish tradition of social housing, which initiated with the Law of Cheap Houses (Ley de Casas Baratas) of 1911 and culminated in the post-Civil war time. To this last period corresponds the erection in Granada of an interesting apartment building for various staff of the national army in numbers 9 and 11 of Severo Ochoa Street, which is analysed in this essay.