Luis Aragonés frente al 'decreto Maricarmen'

Human beings are the only animals who stumble twice on the same stone, and communists are the ones who stumble every time. It matters not the party or movement a person belongs to - be it Bolshevik, worker, people, labor, SUMAR, Podemos, or tenant union - adopt the name and appearance you wish, your revolutionary ideas, labeled "Decree Maricarmen" with or without gluten, always culminate in involvement.

After centuries of destroying economies, we still have not grasped that the engine of progress is driven not by envy and protest, but by ambition and effort. We continue to fail to understand that when there is high demand and low supply in the housing market, prices rise, and the only way to prevent this is by constructing homes.

It's not about harassing builders, but about building. Following the example of Luis Aragonés: build, build, and build again. The housing crisis did not originate in any laboratory to boycott the progressive government. For explanation, consider these figures: in 2025, one million people arrived in Spain, and 400,000 left. That same year, 320,000 children were born, and 447,000 people died.

By the end of 2025, Spain had around half a million more inhabitants, creating approximately 240,000 new households. Yet, only 92,000 dwellings were built. This story has repeated itself exercise after exercise, accumulating a deficit of 750,000 dwellings according to the Banco de España. This deficit will continue to grow if the governing parties fail to reach a significant agreement to rectify it.

Inflation in rents or property prices may feel like a fever, but the infection is that young Spaniards can no longer buy or rent due to a lack of supply. You can put the sick person in an ice bath to lower their temperature, but without curing the infection, they will die. Meanwhile, they continue to pursue shadows. Groucho Marx's phrase, "politics is the art of finding problems, locating them, making a false diagnosis, and applying the wrong remedies," has reached its peak with the PSOE and its partners in SUMAR with the double Decree Maricarmen, a mere placebo that at best will briefly deceive the patient but not cure them.

In 2023, when the Housing Law was approved, SUMAR officials claimed it was time to act so Spaniards could access a dignified home. Three years later, they return to say the same with a slight different nuance.