he Housing market It has become a headache for Spaniards who see every day how the prices for selling and renting real estate do not stop growing, because the demand is much higher than the supply. Moreover, frozen salaries practically do not allow residents to buy a house.
Thus, in Catalonia they have proposed taking the “Amsterdam model” as an example, which consists of prohibiting the purchase of houses for immediate rental use. With this procedure, it will be necessary Use the home as your usual residence before renting.
This Wednesday, from a group General mirrorLara Hernandez, Somar’s coordinator in the residential part, criticized John Goitia, who was also present in the morning, for having Fifteen accommodations and eight more in process. Designed for tourist rental. In this way, the policy defended the need for public measures to protect access to housing and prevent speculation.
For his part, Goitia stressed that the Amsterdam procedure is a “disaster” since “A lot of people don’t have it because they can’t afford it And no matter what laws they make, they can’t become landlords because they’ll walk into the bank and they’ll say: I can’t lend you money.
In the same way, John Goitia reported data that he attributed to another large landlord he knows who has hundreds of clients: “In about a year 50% of contracts that expire, tenants become squatters. “It’s absolute drama.”
However, Lara Hernandez ruled that those The data is ‘completely wrong’ And that the owner was just trying to alert residents.