Spain's Struggle for the Right to Housing: From 15M to the Coalition's New Housing Law
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With Spain's new housing law being approved in Congress last month, the current local and regional election campaign has come to be dominated by the question of housing. As rents continue to soar and a new generation of Spaniards find themselves locked out of home ownership, the left-wing coalition government are promising a raft of measures aimed at guarenteeing the right to housing. But in a country with a particularly dysfunctional approach to housing, centred predominately on private ownership in highly financialized markets, how are serious are its plans? To discuss these issues Eoghan sits down to talk with sociologist Carlos Delclós, lead author of a new report from the Future Policy Lab: 'Vivienda para vivir: de mercancía a derecho'.
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