La solución a la crisis de vivienda no es (solo) construir más
Las izquierdas y los expertos reclaman regulación ante los clamorosos agujeros del mercado inmobiliario
A generation of young people, born around the turn of the century, has lived almost entirely in crisis after crisis, catapulted by fate into a shock as violent as a waterfall. This generation is beginning to raise its voice. The canary in the mine were the protests of American university students to triumphalist speeches about AI.
The anger of French students has put the country on its knees; in Italy there are thousands of mobilized young people; Belgium is preparing a strike over cuts in health and education. The wave of youthful protest hits for diverse causes: in the South of the Pyrenees, the reason is what writer Manuel Rivas has dubbed "catastrophic violence."
A deep housing crisis, exacerbated by the eviction of an octogenarian, the Maricarmen case, has led to a general strike call and an electoral advance. The solution is long-term, but the recipes have slipped into the campaign and are easy to summarize. The left proposes regulating in the face of a clamorous market failure, and eight out of ten Spaniards want the State to intervene.
The right proposes building more: laissez faire. Regulation will not fix everything overnight, but building enough to relieve the problem is, simply and plainly, impossible in the short term.
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