Spain’s government approves new urgent housing measures after a night of unrest in Barcelona
The decrees would add rent caps, eviction limits and a new tax on seasonal rentals as Spain faces nationwide housing protests.
- On Tuesday, Spain's government approved urgent housing decrees after Parliament rejected them last Friday, sending the measures to a 69-member interim legislature known as the 'permanent commission' for ratification until November 29 elections.
- An eviction of an 87-year-old woman in Madrid sparked nationwide protests, as rising housing costs and shortages price many Spaniards out of the market despite strong economic growth in Europe's fourth-largest economy.
- Housing Minister Isabel Rodríguez confirmed the measures extend eviction protections until 2030, regulate room rentals, tax seasonal rentals, ban speculative purchases and provide landlord tax breaks; Monday's Barcelona march turned violent when hundreds of activists clashed with riot police, throwing stones and setting fires.
- Political science professor Alejandro Quiroga at Madrid's Complutense University told The Associated Press the constitutional maneuver was politically necessary, stating 'I don't think Sánchez had an alternative' given his November 29 election focus on housing.
- Protesters continue demanding stronger tenant protections, fraud measures and eviction bans, while these temporary decrees remain in effect until a newly elected Parliament convenes after the November 29 snap election.
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Government revives measures rejected by parliament as major unions back general strike over housing costs and wages
The executive recovered much of the measures rejected last week, amid massive protests, riots in Barcelona and growing pressure from the housing crisis
The Spanish government passed new decrees on the Council of Ministers for housing, similar to those that were dropped last week by Congress. Sánchez argues they are not "ideological issue".
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announces the government's re-approval of two housing decree-laws
The expanded text obliges the announcements to carry the index of reference and previews 10 billion in aids to finance the first housingThese are the measures that the Permanent Council will vote: the government replicates the decrees of housing Although the decrees of housing approved this Tuesday replicate almost identically to those that the Congress has fallen down on Friday, Pedro Sánchez has also announced some new ones that were not in th…
Two new decrees law to deal with the housing emergency after the two previous decrees were rejected by the Parliament last week, leading to the fall of the government. Pedro Sanchez drops theasso before the elections anticipated by himself convened on Monday. Among the 21 main measures there are the facilitation of access to accessible rentals and [...] The article Spain, Sanchez's move before the early vote is in 2 decrees: "Purchased for 10 bi…
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