ABSTRACT
Since the early 70’s, deep changes have taken place in the housing policies of EEC countries. Traditionally, sociological transformations have accounted for these evolutions: but they can also be explained by the effort of the major countries to reduce their public deficits and to modernize their economic and financial sectors, which, then, comes to mean less government intervention in the housing sector. But not all countries proceed alike, as some try to maintain a delicate balance between the rental and the home ownership sectors.
