Rising rents and tourist lets: How can Spain's housing crisis be solved?

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Rising rents and tourist lets: How can Spain's housing crisis be solved?  Europe's housing crisis is worsening, and young people in Spain are struggling to get on the ladder as prices soar, experts tell Euronews.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/18/rising-rents-and-tourist-lets-how-can-spains-housing-crisis-be-solved  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Buying a home is nearly impossible for many in the European Union.

00:07Over the past decade, house prices have risen by an average of 48% across the bloc.

00:13Spain is one of the most affected countries, with young people moving out at the age of

00:1830, making it the second latest country in the EU.

00:22The high number of tourist rentals and the lack of public housing projects could be behind

00:27rising prices.

00:30The price of housing has risen by 20% in the last year,

00:36and the rent has risen by 15.4%.

00:40Municipalities of the metropolitan area are asking for houses with three bedrooms

00:45for rents of 1,200 euros and up to 1,500 euros.

00:49In the central district, the rent has risen by almost 21%.

00:54Spain's socialist government is trying to tackle this issue through the housing law,

00:59but the main opposition, the People's Party, disagrees.

01:24The housing law applies in Madrid, but it doesn't apply in the high-rise areas.

01:29We've seen that the high-rise areas in Barcelona had a minimal price drop,

01:34but now they're at historic highs.

01:38Both the Popular Party and the Socialist Party have introduced different plans to tackle the issue.

01:46In the long term, public housing construction,

01:50but in the short term, market regulation.

01:52If there are high-rise areas where prices are rising by 14%,

01:56you have to deal with it, because it's not conceivable that this could happen in a fair society.

02:01It's tax cuts, it's my first home, it's the Plan Vive,

02:05it's the Plan Alquila Plus, it's giving legal security to the owners,

02:10even to the entrepreneurs, to the housing promoters.

02:14Housing inaccessibility is a major issue in other EU member states as well.

02:18Well, Estonia and Hungary have seen the highest price surges.

02:22The European Parliament has created a special housing commission to address this growing problem.

02:28From Madrid, Roberto Macedonio, Euronews.

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