Raccomandazioni e suppliche per una casa: la Obra Sindical del Hogar a Madrid negli anni Quaranta e Cinquanta

Recommendations and Pleas for an Obra Sindical del Hogar’s House in Madrid in the 1940s and 1950s In the years following the Spanish Civil War, Francisco Franco’s regime tried to mitigate the difficulties that those who had supported the Alzamiento Nacional living in Madrid encountered when buying a house or finding one to live in for rent. A special organization, the Obra Sindical del Hogar (OSH), was created to direct the resources of the State towards the construction of economical houses, the so-called viviendas protegidas, trying to give an answer. However, the OSH did not meet expectations, leading many citizens to seek alternatives in order to receive a house from the organization, by contacting directly with the upper echelons of the regime through letters of supplication and recommendation.