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The measure was one of a dozen unveiled on Monday by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the government seeks to quell mounting anger over housing costs that have soared far beyond the reach of many in Spain.

Sánchez sought to underline the global nature of the challenge, citing housing prices that had swelled 48% in the past decade across Europe, far outpacing household incomes.

“The west faces a decisive challenge: to not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants,” he told an economic forum in Madrid.

The proposed measures include expanding the supply of social housing, offering incentives to those who renovate and rent out empty properties at affordable prices and cracking down on seasonal rentals. In Spain just 2.5% of housing is set aside for social housing, a figure that lags drastically behind countries such as France and the Netherlands, said Sánchez.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just make it so the dwelling has to be occupied by the owner for 9-10 months a year. Every month it is unoccupied, the owner has to pay the value of a monthly rent as tax multiplied by the number of months it has been unoccupied -->

month 1 = rent x 1 month 2 = rent x 2 month 3 = rent x 3

I think that'll be hard to ignore for most landlords - foreign or not.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you confirm whether the property is occupied?

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everytime you leave the country you need to have your passport stamped at customs, and eventually you'll need to re-enter the country and show your ID or passport. At re-entry, you can be checked. This plus a yearly in-person check mandate can make sure you stay there.

[–] tedvdb@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah... Which customs? I can just step in a car and drive trough multiple countries without ever needing to show my passport.

[–] salieri@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It should be non-Spain but ok i guess, lets keep letting the rich countries in EU destroy our chance at a home….. (which i assume by fare are the most prevalent)

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that there are EU freedom of movement rules. It would be hard to justify Spain-only in the face of those rules

[–] BritishJ@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Not really. Spanish residents only. Not citizens. So you can freely move into Spain and reside there. Once you reside there no 100% tax on buying a house. This should have nothing to do with freedom of movement.