Accessing the housing market in Spain is increasingly difficult, because prices do not stop getting up and more and more money is saved to buy a house, due to all the expenses it entails. A demand that does not stop growing and an increasingly scarce offer are the two characteristics that define the Spanish housing market.
In this sense, the white Afra unionist has wanted to highlight that for many it is one of the biggest causes of the housing problem in Spain: speculation and the amount of tourist floors with which housing becomes a business in Spain. She is clear: “I am not against the one who buys to live, I am flatly against the one who buys to invest”, referring to the great holders that cause the lack of housing and to buy a house is increasingly expensive in Spain.
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Afra Blanco Compare the house with another basic good: food
The famous trade unionist, which is not the first time that he speaks of housing, asks for urgent measures so that families, young people and people with lower purchasing power can access a roof. In an increasingly tense frame, Blanco wanted to blame the big holders or those who buy properties just to do business in a recent interview in ‘The Sixth Xplica’. She compares it directly with another basic good, such as food.
“If food prices were artificially embedded, causing a part of the population to go hungry, everyone would understand that you have to intervene. Instead, that perception does not happen with a basic good such as housing,” the trade unionist explodes in an intervention during the sixth program, reminding the spectators that housing is also a basic right such as food.
In your opinion, specular with basic goods is a serious mistake. “I am not against the one who has a house but of the one who accumulates basic goods to speculate today,” he remarks. Blanco understands the enormous housing deficit that exists in our country and until there is an important reaction and the problem is attached, this will only get worse.
The trade unionist asks for urgent measures
When will these urgent measures arrive if we already live a worrying housing crisis? He wonders. “The Labor Foundation for Construction already said in 2021 that 700,000 construction professionals were missing. It is clear that workers must be trained and prepared, but the Foundation also says that we will take many years to have that offer and, until then, what do we do?”, He insists.
For the youngest, who are waiting to become independent, this can be too much time. Moreover, children under 35 have had to return home to their parents because they find it impossible to save for a house. Not only is it a problem of accessing the purchase of a first home, but also of the rent, which in Spain is in the clouds.
“If we are facing a crisis, in an emergency, we understand that we must intervene and prohibit tourist floors in tension areas and that housing, today, sell investment funds. Instead, guarantees must be offered to the owners.”
Tenants are not currently saved from this problem, since in addition to the costs on elevated, they have to face excessively precarious conditions.
The inequality between landlords with multipropidity and tenants
A member of the tenant union, Fernando de los Santos, also wanted to leave his opinion about the housing problem: “There are millions of tenants and tenants who live more and more at risk of poverty and have to dedicate most of the salary to pay for rent. In this problem there is, clearly, an inequality of power. There are a few people who are monopolizing all the properties and the rest are forced to rent them,” he explains.
And it is not the only thing, the trade unionist also calls collective performance. “If there is a clear inequality among those few homemade who has all the properties and those who need them to rent, when we act alone it is very difficult to negotiate. This is known by anyone for the fees that charge us illegally, repairs and abusive clauses,” Fernando points out. For him, the exit is evident: “Act collectively” against these owners.