The Spanish housing cooperatives are temporary organizations aiming at building homes for their members with the help of professional agents to ensure a price which covers only the actual costs, without any profit of the private development company and, consequently a lower price than the market price, and affordable for the people. Houses produced in cooperative regime constitute a considerable part of the subsidized housing in Spain, which are graded into three categories according to the ratio of the beneficiary's income to the minimum wage. Their percentage in the overall houses built has also been increasing in recent years. The reason of the growth lies not only in its cost efficiency but also in some other advantages including the social cohesion of theusers who have organized the mselves in this regime. The author gives an example of the "L'illa" building to demonstrate these advantages.
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