Just 18 days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, on April 19, 1939, the National Housing Institute was created to address the severe housing shortage and the destruction of the country’s housing stock caused by the conflict. One of the mechanisms it relied on was housing cooperatives, which have enabled the construction of more than 2.5 million homes since 1957, representing around 10% of Spain’s housing stock, according to the Spanish Confederation of Housing and Rehabilitation Cooperatives (Concovi).

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