Precarious wages and skyrocketing prices, or rather crazy prices. It is the perfect cocktail that has boosted access to decent housing for a very large part of the population. In the new issue of the magazine elDiario.es, which members will receive soon, we talk in depth about the problem, but above all we propose solutions, possible alternatives that already work in other countries, even in some places in our territory.
The reality is so dramatic in many parts of Spain that Article 47 of the Constitution already seems like a bad joke to us, the one that says: “All Spaniards have the right to enjoy decent and adequate housing. The public authorities will promote the necessary conditions and establish the pertinent rules to make this right effective, regulating the use of land in accordance with the general interest to prevent speculation.
“Housing is the weak link in our welfare state and without it, the welfare state falters,” says Carme Trilla Bellart, one of Spain’s leading experts on the subject, in her article. “Social housing should never be allowed to be put on the open market,” says Michaela Kauer, former deputy mayor of the city of Vienna, in an interview. “It is impossible to reconquer cities without first creating a housing access policy that radically questions the general, urban and national model. Or what amounts to the same thing, without touching the noses of many people,” emphasizes Jorge Dioni, author of “The Spain of Swimming Pools.”
These are three examples of the content of this review, in which Daniel Sorando, Melissa García-Lamarca, Marta Ill-Raga, Delia Rodríguez, Mara Ferreri, María Álvarez, Raúl Sánchez, Victòria Oliveres, Irene Castro, Néstor Cenizo, Pablo Sierra write, Marialen Ferreira, Guillermo Hormigo, Diego Casado, Ray Sánchez, Carlos Navarro, Pau Rodríguez, Alejandro Inurrieta and Ignacio Escolar.
Reports, data and analyses that help to understand the housing problem and, above all, to glimpse possible solutions.
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