Apartments for residents
No matter how much the Prohens government has found a political goldmine in the immigration issue, it will not be able to ignore that the housing situation requires more than grandiloquent announcements of building social housing. Which they are not. Before the elections, we will see visits to sites with helmets and even cranes if the process is for administrative highways. Meanwhile, they will sell us raw figures without a truly public housing policy. The announcements confirm that the measures are only intended to adapt to the market and neither regulate nor influence it. The most blatant example is the Secure Rental program, which forces citizens to pay the extra cost that the owner will charge to make it attractive to rent their home. I am surprised that it is legal (ethical, of course, not) for the government to contribute to widespread speculation. Even this call doesn't seem to be working, mainly because demand is so high—and people's desperation so great—that those who own an apartment don't need to get bogged down in bureaucratic procedures when they can rent it out almost without advertising.
The debate that should be taking place isn't whether we need more inspectors to monitor tourist rentals, but rather banning them with exemplary fines for non-compliance. The prophecy that would contribute to the development of a collaborative economy and act as a redistributor of wealth has not been fulfilled. No one thought that human greed and the most voracious capitalism are above any equitable theory.
The residential emergency situation is so worrying that we must consider the common good, the dignity of those who can't sleep wondering how they'll pay the landlord the new amount imposed on them after five years of contract; those who can't find a place to live because they earn the minimum wage; Those who have minor children and can't convince anyone they'll make the payment.
It's essential to free up all these apartments that enrich the privileged rentiers so that those who do live in the towns and cities can live. And regulate the market with all the mechanisms permitted by law. Or do more. The problem is too serious to be left to the discretion of the rentiers. The social danger, of course, doesn't lie in the PP's boats.
