High Rent Prices in Spain Make Half the Tenants Poor
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Almost two million Spaniards that conventional statistics put out of poverty fail to reach the income threshold once they pay the cost of their housing. They are the hidden poor who reveal a new study by Fedea on the impact that rent and other residential expenses have on the capacity ... Continue reading "Almost 2 million Spaniards are 'hidden poor': they pass the poverty line after paying for housing"
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Fedea number 1.95 million people who are not poor according to their income, but fall below the threshold after paying rent
A Fedea study points out that if housing costs are taken into account, the poverty rate should include two million more people.
Paying rent for a home can make the difference between skipping the poverty line or not. Prices have climbed so much in recent years that a tenant with...
About 1.95 million people in Spain were in a situation of "hidden poverty" in 2025, that is, they were not classified as poor under the conventional criterion of monetary disposable income, but fell below the poverty line once the cost of access to housing was faced. [...] The Fedea entry warns that the poverty rate in Spain would skyrocket to 23.5% including the cost of housing appears first in Forbes Spain.
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