Spain lived during the summer and autumn last year a cycle of demonstrations for the housing crisis. Also linked to the negative effects of tourism on prices and accessibility, there were protests in which tens of thousands of attendees in ,,,, Malaga or Valencia added. This Saturday, in a unitary call of the and with the support of entities and associations, the residents of 40 cities are called again to demonstrate the same day. There are calls at noon (Madrid, Málaga, Seville or Balearic Islands) and others in the afternoon (Barcelona, Valencia or Zaragoza). This time, the motto is “We end the housing business.” The call is also added medium cities of Galicia (Santiago, Vigo, Coruña), Gijón, Salamanca, Murcia or Burgos, to name a few. Since last December, housing has been placed as the first problem for Spaniards.
The unitary call requires a decrease in 50% rentals and linked to families’ income; the expropriation of vulture and empty housing funds to expand the; the recovery of and of, and indefinite contracts. In addition, he asks for “the disarticulation” of the groups of Desokupationthe end of “all evictions”, of speculative purchases and the expansion of the public park, dissolving the Sareb.
It is not the first time that the big Spanish cities are manifested by housing. There was another cycle before the outbreak of the real estate bubble, when the rent was not news and the drama was the price escalation. Of that time is the. Since then, the devastating of the mortgage crisis, the unemployment that left many families without being able to pay, the evictions, the subsequent occupations of empty housing have occurred, the arrival of investment funds that bought large packages of houses, the rise of the rent and the tourist massification accelerated in cities that did not have this problem and now their neighbors suffer a triple problem: there are hardly any rent, because part of the offer is part of Tourist or season, and those that are not to be paid.
Also since then Spain has, definitely approved in May 2023. The norm contemplates the regulation of rentals, based on an official price index, but for now (since March 2024 it does) in 140 municipalities declared as a tense market, which since summer has been extended to another 131. In total these populations add 90% of the inhabitants of the community. The regulation of rentals has caused a moderate price drop, but also a decrease in the new signed contracts, and a detour from the offer to the rental of the season, which the homemade resort to dodge the regulation.
Cities that ask to regulate rentals
In the Basque Country, Errenteria has also been declared a municipality of Mercado Tense, and several more municipalities, including San Sebastián, have requested it. , PP and VOX voted in the assembly last Thursday against taking into consideration the popular legislative initiative (ILP) presented by 10 mayors of the PSOE of Madrid to be able to declare their municipalities as areas of the residential market tensioning and thus be able to limit the rental prices. The municipalities in question: Alcorcón, Ciempozuelos, Coslada, Fuenlabrada, Getafe, Improved del Campo, Pinilla del Valle, San Fernando de Henares, San Martín de la Vega and Velilla de San Antonio.
And in Galicia, Santiago (with mayor of BNG) and Coruña (PSDEG) have announced that they will request the declaration of tensioning zone. The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, declared on Monday that if the cities ask to be tensioning areas and “meet the requirements” will process the requests despite the fact that the autonomous government, of the PP, is against the State Housing Law because, according to Rueda, “it does not solve the problems, rather it creates them” and argues that the areas already declared in Spain “have not seen the problem solved.”
List of cities and exit points, ordered by hours
11.30h
. Plaza de la Merced
. SANTAÑA PLAZA
12.00h
. Mirador Paseo Marítimo
. Plaza de la Soledad
. Cid Plaza
. San Antonio Square
. Music kiosk
. Ourense square
. Train station
. Boulevar
. Insular council
. Juan Cabala Square
. Puerto del Rosario
. Triumph
. Plaza de Santo Domingo
. Supply Plaza
. Square of the Pilar
. Centenary dragon
. Paseo del Espolón
. Atocha
. Plaza Spain
Town Hall Square
. TOURAL PARZA
. Barcelona Plaza
. Parliament
. Alameda
. Golden source
12.30h
. Wetland Plaza
17.00h
. Plaza Front Al Centro Now
. The lamppost
18.00h
. Espanya Square
. Plaza Manila
. Plaza de la Esplanada
. San Isidro (Ermita Square)
18.30h
. Villa institute
. City Hall Plaza
. San Miguel Square
19.00h
. Azouejo
. Plaza de España
