A Country of Smallholders

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The housing crisis has been perceived in Spain for years, but it has been necessary for Maricarmen's eviction to trigger collective sensitivity in order for the government to undertake measures of a certain radicality against those it identifies as guilty: speculators, vulture funds and the regulation of evictions.

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The so-called vulture funds and, by extension, also what are called large holders in terms of housing, have been in the spotlight all week as a result of the debate opened both socially and politically by the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal in Madrid. But, do large holders really have that much weight in the Catalan and Spanish housing market? Can they set the price of rent? In fact, the structure of home ownership suggests that their weight is r…