La sustitución de la renta por la rehabilitación o reforma de la vivienda en los arrendamientos urbanos

Identifier:  TDX:2748

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2748

Authors:  Garcia Teruel, Rosa Maria

Abstract:
In a context of difficulties in accessing to housing, Act 4/2013 introduced a new article 17.5 into the Act on Urban Leases. This article regulates the so-called “renovations in lieu of rent” (rehabilitación por renta), that is to say, a tenancy contract in which the tenant does not pay the rent with money but performing renovation works in the same rented dwelling. Renovations in lieu of rent, by its own nature, allows a tenant with no liquidity but with building skills to access an affordable housing. The purpose of this PhD dissertation is to analyse the legal regime of renovations in lieu of rent, to detect its problems and to propose improvements, as well as to determine if renovations in lieu of rent, according to the current regulation, may represent a residential alternative for vulnerable people or if a legislative reform would be needed to promote its use. With this purpose, its historical precedents, its legal nature, the problems in the application of Urban Leases Act and its overlapping in the rest of the legal system are analysed. Once these problems are identified, the dissertation concludes with a legislative proposal, aiming to make renovations in lieu of rent an operational type of housing tenure.