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Javier Gil: "Just as There Is a Minimum Wage to Live in a Dignified Way, There Has to Be a Maximum Rent"

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The population that lives on rent in Spain has not stopped growing in recent years while the price of housing has skyrocketed and has increased access to purchase. Javier Gil (Madrid, 1985), PhD in Sociology from the UNED and researcher at the CSIC, investigates in his new book, Generation Inquilina (Captain Swing), how the current housing crisis has been forged by the breakup of the owner society forged at the end of the last century.

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The researcher publishes 'Inquiline Generation', an analysis of the policies that have led the country to a 'welfare crisis', but also an argument for a new paradigm around housing

·Spain
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The population that lives on rent in Spain has not stopped growing in recent years while the price of housing has skyrocketed and has increased access to purchase. Javier Gil (Madrid, 1985), PhD in Sociology from the UNED and researcher at the CSIC, investigates in his new book, Generation Inquilina (Captain Swing), how the current housing crisis has been forged by the breakup of the owner society forged at the end of the last century.

·Madrid, Spain
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"The tenant generation is all the population who cannot access a home in property. But this exclusion is not of their own volition or lack of effort, but has to do with the structural conditioning of the economy and politics." Thus explains sociologist Javier Gil (Madrid, 1985) the concept that serves as the title for his latest book: Inquilline Generation. A new housing paradigm to end inequality (Captain Swing, 2026). "Just as there is a minim…

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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Monday, March 9, 2026.
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