The aim of this paper is to connect two processes that have been analysed independently to date and that have characterised the housing experience of the Spanish population. On the one hand, the consequences induced by the high density of Spanish urban spaces on other spatial spheres of people's lives and on the other hand, the traditional presence and the recent expansion of second home possession. In this context, we will demonstrate that, in Spain, a strong statistical relationship has been established between the location of main dwellings in a very dense urban context and a greater probability of having second homes. This relationship is better known in the scientific literature as the 'compensation hypothesis'. Copyright (c) 2007 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG.

Recent foreign immigration has become the most important sociodemographic process in Spain. It impinges on many different social aspects, among them, the interrelationship between housing and population. More than 5 million immigrants have arrived during the last 10 years, responsible for about half of new households created since 2001. The size of Spanish demographic change due to immigration, as well as the predominance of a housing model based on home ownership, justifies the interest of the study. Attention will be focused on access to home ownership by long‐standing immigrants, who arrived between 1981 and 1991, observed in the 1991 and 2001 censuses, and compared with Spaniards. Their residential patterns can help us to predict the impact of the current immigration on the Spanish housing system. The conclusions point towards the beginning of a new heterogeneity in the Spanish housing system caused by a deficit of assimilation of the households with immigratory antecedents. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Southern European countries (SEC) are often considered as a homogenous group, distinct from the rest of Europe, in the literature of housing studies. This article explores the idea that despite sharing cohesion factors, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain also displayed a significant degree of heterogeneity in their housing patterns at the outset of the current economic crisis.

BACKGROUND In the context of increasing cohabitation and growing demand for understanding the driving forces behind the cohabitation boom, most analyses have been carried out at a national level, not accounting for regional heterogeneity within countries. OBJECTIVE This paper presents the geography of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas. We offer a large-scale, cross-national perspective together with small-area estimates of cohabitation. We decided to produce this map because: (i) geography unveils spatial heterogeneity and challenges explanatory frameworks that may work at the international level but have low explanatory power in regard to intra-national variation. (ii) we argue that historical pockets of cohabitation can still be identified by examining the current geography of cohabitation. (iii) our map is a first step toward understanding whether the recent increase in cohabitation is an intensification of pre-existing traditions or whether it has different roots that also imply a new geography. METHODS Census microdata from 39 countries and 19,000 local units have been pulled together to map the prevalence of cohabitation among women. RESULTS The results show inter- and intra-national regional contrasts. The highest rates of cohabitation are found in areas of Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia and Peru. The lowest rates are mainly found in the United States and Mexico. In all countries the spatial autocorrelation statistics indicates substantial spatial heterogeneity. CONCLUSIONS Our results raise the question as to which forces have shaped these patterns and remind us that such forces need to be taken into account to understand recent patterns, particularly increases, in cohabitation.

Análisis comparado • Análisis de cohortes • Cambio demográfico • Costes de la vivienda • Joven • Pautas residenciales • Vivienda Resumen Este artículo aborda la relación entre población y vivienda en el marco interpretativo propio de la demografía. El objetivo principal es confirmar la rápida evolución reciente del sistema residencial español, y explorar cómo lo hará en el futuro próximo. Para ello, se argumenta la necesidad de analizar los sistemas residenciales en perspectiva dinámica, se analiza la situación de España en el contexto internacional y se aborda empíricamente la dinámica y el cambio del sistema residencial español. En el análisis empírico, se resalta la importancia de tener en cuenta las dimensiones temporales, sobre todo la edad. Se confirma un nuevo período de necesidad prácticamente nula de primera vivienda, que puede ser agravada por la crisis actual y sus efectos en la formación familiar. Además, se identifica un importante repunte del alquiler como opción de acceso a la vivienda entre los jóvenes, cuestionando la propiedad como el elemento dominante del sistema residencial español futuro.

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