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Spanish Government tackles social housing emergency

Graham Watson

6th April 2025

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A housing shortage in Spain has seen rents double in the past decade, whereas incomes have only gone up by 20%. As a result, a significant proportion of renters are having to spend more than 40% of their incomes on renting property. As a result, the Spanish government are having to intervene. To incentivise housebuilding, individual cities have started to clamp down on tourist flats and there's even been talk of introducing a rent cap something that rarely succeeds in solving the problem.

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Graham Watson

Graham Watson has taught Economics for over twenty years. He contributes to tutor2u, reads voraciously and is interested in all aspects of Teaching and Learning.

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