There is a place in Spain where protected housing cannot be sold at the price of free at any time and that place is Euskadi. A law since 2003 It forces sellers to establish a price with a maximum that is set by the administration.
The residents of the Deusto neighborhood in Bilbao mostly live in official housing whose acquisition was at an affordable price and, in addition, They can never sell them at a free price.
In this same way it occurs throughout Euskadi. In 2003 the Basque Government updated the access regulations for public protection housing for try to avoid speculation and that prices are finally impossible.
On the street, opinions in this regard are disparate. While some consider that it is unfair others believe that the measure adopted by the Basque Government is fine because “You have to protect people’s rights and that everyone can have a home. “
This same Wednesday the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has proposed Permanent shielding the qualification of these homes in the rest of Spain.
In this sense, he denounces that In the last 45 years more than 2.4 million protected homes were built In Spain, but that “almost totality” ended up disqualified and sold in the free market at high prices or “were captured by speculation and vulture funds.”
This, Sánchez warns, is a misuse of taxes and moves us away from the European average of 8% of social social housing, so he asks to end this “terrible bleeding” with which commitment that “the homes that are financed with public money permanently maintain their qualification of protected housing and, therefore, always offer an affordable alternative of property or rental for citizenship.”
