The ‘Pla territorial sectorial d’habitatge’: The case study of Catalonia as an example to reflect upon Albania’s future

In the early 2000s, a number of Catalonian municipalities started to reflect upon social housing issues due to the concerning rising residential market prices and the insufficient incomes of growing social groups, young people and economic immigration. The study aims to explain objectives and methodology adopted in the Territorial Housing Plan, authored by the team led by the architects JM. Vilanova and R. Pié in collaboration with Catalan Government and the Polytechnic University. The document assesses the social housing needs of specific groups – such as young and senior people, populations at risk of exclusion and poorly housed individuals - and it provides guidelines to solve them through actions in the metropolitan, urban and rural diversities of the Catalonian territory. The final purpose is to apply this analytic-propositional methodological approach to the Albanian context – especially the case of Tirana municipality - in order to provide some guidelines.