Publication of a doctoral dissertation

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Tirant lo Blanch has recently published the doctoral dissertation of Dr. Rosa Maria Garcia Teruel, researcher from the Housing Chair, with the title “La sustitución de la renta por la rehabilitación o reforma de la vivienda en los arrendamientos urbanos”. This book studies the renovations in lieu of rent scheme, which was introduced in 2013 in art. 17.5 Urban Leases Act. This scheme allows a tenant with no liquidity to rent a housing without paying a rent in Money, but renovating it.

https://www.tirant.com/editorial/libro/la-sustitucion-de-la-renta-por-la-rehabilitacion-o-reforma-de-la-vivienda-en-los-arrendamientos-urbanos-rosa-maria-garcia-teruel-9788413134123

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On September 22, our collaborator Dr. Maridalia Rodríguez Padilla published in the Dominican magazine Acento.com.do an article entitled “Necesitamos políticas públicas habitacionales efectivas, inclusivas y diversificadas” (“We need effective, inclusive and diverse public housing policies”). Its main purpose was to draw attention to insufficient public housing policies in the Dominican Republic that would comply with the minimum standards indicated by the international agreements to which this country is a party.

In her opinion, based on the data of relevant institutions, Dominican citizens need public policies that would allow them to exercise their right to housing and other rights connected with it, as well as the measures that would promote the housing sector taking into account different needs and family budgets according to the different income groups. It also emphasizes that to recover affordable housing stock and thus to offer housing in accordance with different needs, the State’s active participation in this sector is necessary, as well as the minimum social commitment from the private sector.

Necesitamos políticas públicas habitacionales efectivas, inclusivas y diversificadas

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Maridalia Rodríguez Padilla inaugurated an opinion space called “Aleph Jurídico” in the online magazine Acento.com.do. Through which it will share social and legal issues related specifically to  Housing Rights and its improvement in the Dominican Republic; the factors to overcome towards the development of a diversified and inclusive real estate market, as well as financial and legal developments that can have a positive impact in the residential market.The column began with an opinion article on the recent reform of  Trust law in the Dominican Republic, since the aforementioned modification deals directly with incentives to spur the development of affordable housing.

This first article has been titled: “La insuficiencia de la reforma de la Ley 189-11 para el desarrollo del mercado hipotecario y el fideicomiso en la República Dominicana”. Its purpose is to contribute to the reduction of the country’s housing deficit at the national level; and that it’s achievements can be emulated by other countries with the same housing challenges.

https://acento.com.do/2019/opinion/8710967-la-insuficiencia-de-la-reforma-de-la-ley-189-11/

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Estela Rivas Nieto, Les consequències fiscals del micromecenatge (Issues on crowdfunding taxation), Forum Jurídic, Revista de l’Il.lustre Col.legi de l’Advocacia de Tarragona, núm. 66, 07, 2019.

https://housing.urv.cat/portada/recerca/working-papers/

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After the participation of our collaborator Maridalia Rodríguez Padillain the II Conference of Doctorate in Law of the UB: “Personalidades jurídicas difusas y artificiales”, which was held at the Law faculty of the University of Barcelona on April 24th, it has been published in TransJus Magazine, the working documents no. 4/2019 called “Personalidades jurídicas difusas y artificiales”. Her article entitled “El fideicomiso latinoamericano, una institución sin personalidad jurídica” can be found on pages 115-129 of the aforementioned publication in which it analyzes the diffuse personality of Latin American Trusts.

http://hdl.handle.net/2445/137759

Journal of the UNESCO Housing Chair

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The 11 issue of the journal Housing has been published. https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/research/newsletter

Big Blue Book

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The UN “Big Blue Book” has been published. It gathers 70 Universities worldwide that contribute, thanks to their research in the field of cities and urban studies, to achieve the global challenge number 11 (sustainable cities). Our UNESCO Housing Chair is located within these 70 Universities this year. Yo can find the link here: https://unhabitat.org/books/big-blue-book/

La URV, present al mapa de l’ONU sobre recerca i educació en estudis urbans

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Published the new decree on the system of rental income for urban leases in Catalonia (Decree Law 9/2019, of May 21)

Here is the complete book chapter of Prof. Sergio Nasarre a few months ago, where he already developed a very similar system to the one finally approved. It is available at: https://housing.urv.cat/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sergio-Nasarre_p195-21_Nou-dret-arrendament-La-renda-i-la-seva-actualización.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3aKLTNPuem_mTtaveOlikHyGlujXwnF9rasgqUoTe8q8pWF8C8l4ZVYpo

And the entire book is available at https://www.marialpons.es/libros/un-nou-dret-darrendaments-urbans-for-a-avoravorir-lacces-a-lhabitatge/9788417466244/

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“Plataformas de Capital versus Plataformas Sociales en la Economía Colaborativa: Punto de vista jurídico internacional”

Maria Font i Mas

In the economy, we distinguish, in a simple way, the strictly capitalist business sector and the corporate social sector. This simple dichotomy has been transferred to the scope of the collaborative economy, which mistakenly includes under the same name capital platforms and social platforms. These platforms have in common different factors, for instance, namely that they essentially use the digital platform to develop their activity; but they differ in that the first ones seek to maximize capital and the platform is a mere messenger that manages economic transactions just like the classical economy. In front of these, there are social platforms in which the main objective is not for profit, although benefits are obtained, the goal being to have a social impact, at the same time that it provides services or products to the users, following specific values. (…)

http://www.ciriec.uliege.be/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/WP2018-12.pdf

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“The social impact of research in the field of housing. The case of the UNESCO Chair of housing of the Rovira i Virgili University”

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Gemma Caballé Fabra.

Born from a need to return to society the results of many years of intenseresearch on mortgage and housing law, the University Rovira i Virgili Housing Chair  was created as a functional vehicle to transfer knowledge and to achieve a tangible social  impact through facilitating access to housing.

This article describes the circumstances  that led to the establishment of the Chair, the only UNESCO Housing Chair in the  world, and analyzes its value chain, which links research with specialized teaching,  knowledge transfer and social impact. The article also presents key aspects of the Chair  and provides examples of its activity and impact with specific results

http://www.revista-rio.org/index.php/revista_rio/article/view/247