Spain’s housing crisis deepens: residents’ anger is rising

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Spain’s housing crisis deepens: residents’ anger is rising  Millions across Europe are being priced out of housing, with Spain at the heart of the crisis. Euronews’s international correspondent Valérie Gauriat reports from Barcelona, where skyrocketing rents and property speculation are pushing residents to the brink.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/08/06/spains-housing-crisis-deepens-residents-anger-is-rising  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Casa Nostra, Casa Nostra

00:08Les loyers flambent, les prix de l'immobilier explosent,

00:11se loger à un prix abordable et dans des conditions décentes

00:14est devenu une gageure pour des millions d'Européens.

00:18Une crise qui frappe de plein fouet l'Espagne, comme ici à Barcelone.

00:22La surenchère, des locations de courte durée

00:25et la spéculation prive de plus en plus d'habitants de logements.

00:29Une question dont se sont emparées les autorités espagnoles

00:32et qui est aussi à l'agenda de l'Union Européenne.

00:42L'accès au logement est un défi majeur pour de nombreux Européens.

00:46Depuis 2010, les prix des logements ont bondi en moyenne

00:50de plus de 50% dans l'Union Européenne et les loyers de 26%.

00:55Une flambée due à l'offre insuffisante et au prix élevé du secteur de la construction,

01:01mais aussi à l'explosion des locations de courte durée.

01:04La spéculation immobilière, notamment des investisseurs étrangers,

01:09ne fait qu'aggraver la pénurie de logements.

01:12L'Espagne est l'un des pays les plus touchés.

01:15Les loyers y ont augmenté en moyenne de près de 80% en 10 ans.

01:20Pour endiguer le phénomène, le gouvernement veut faire retirer 65 000 annonces Airbnb

01:26et augmenter les taxes sur les achats immobiliers des ressortissants non européens.

01:31Ils peinent par ailleurs à faire appliquer une loi plafonnant les prix locatifs.

01:35Bien que le logement soit une compétence nationale, les institutions européennes veulent réagir.

01:42Un commissaire européen au logement a été nommé

01:45et le Parlement européen s'est doté d'une commission sur la question.

01:49Objectif, lancer un plan européen pour le logement abordable.

01:54Une urgence, tandis que la colère monte à travers l'Europe.

01:58Je suis à Barcelone où des manifestations comme celles qui se trouvent derrière moi

02:11sont de plus en plus fréquentes.

02:13La capitale de Catalogne est l'une des destinations les plus prisées des touristes

02:17mais aussi des spéculateurs immobiliers.

02:19Résultat de plus en plus d'habitants s'est poussé hors de chez eux

02:23et ils n'entendent plus sur les secteurs.

02:26Résultat de plus en plus d'habitants.

02:30La Barcelona se convient en une ville bien de tourisme.

02:34Les alquileres sont absolument désbordés.

02:38Rosario fait partie du réseau de syndicats de locataires

02:43qui se mobilisent dans tout le pays pour revendiquer leur droit au logement.

02:47Ils sont venus de fonds de investissement qui comprennent des édificiers

02:55pour spéculer, pour faire un co-living.

02:58Ils nous echaient à tous.

02:59Rosario is invited to her tomorrow morning, in this building built in 4 years ago by the

03:06Vendor Group, from a British investment fund, Patron Capital.

03:29Vendor wants to remove this, my house, and everything I'm doing here.

03:42All the old residents of the building have been forced to leave in terms of their location.

03:47The apartments are now occupied by foreign students.

03:52There are 5 floors, on each floor there are 2 apartments, which are used as a living.

03:59The location of Rosario has expired a year and a half, but she refuses to leave.

04:05The property, also insisting and trying to convince myself to leave.

04:11They proposed to give me a small indemnization, and I looked at how the market was.

04:16The buildings that there were were little and very expensive.

04:20They were completely disorbitated.

04:23In proceeding with the company, who she continues to sell her property,

04:27Rosario is afraid of expulsion.

04:30But she wants to continue to fight.

04:32They have to stop, that they buy massively, as they buy the buildings,

04:38as if they buy a bagel.

04:41Now they are very enriching, because of the people.

04:46This is an absolute bomb bomb.

04:48There are a lot of people on the street.

04:50The only one who can do something is the syndicates.

04:54By the syndicates and locators of Barcelona, the resistance is organized.

05:01Every week, Rosario takes part of the reunion

05:04that holds the inhabitants of other buildings

05:06bought by the investment fund.

05:08The objective is to avoid expulsion

05:10and push the public power to act.

05:13It's a very big issue,

05:14and we can't be able to do it to the public.

05:15There are no issues.

05:16There's no equal protection on the right to the housing.

05:17The problem is,

05:18the problem is to be able to do it.

05:19The problem is to support people

05:20because we don't know

05:21as soon as you can live here.

05:23If we are going to stay in the future.

05:25We will have to do it.

05:26We will have to do it.

05:27There is a lot of good protection

05:28to be able to defend that.

05:29and ask the institutions to protect us in front of this massive speculation.

05:36Bandor is a great company, but we are also in our way.

05:42It's fundamental to join us, join forces, and to be stronger.

05:50What can the national and european power to end the crisis of housing?

05:55I have asked the mayor of Barcelona,

05:57initiator of a project in this sense,

05:59regrouping 15 big cities in Europe.

06:02What we have started to do in Spain,

06:04and the cities that we wanted to welcome to that measure,

06:08is regulation to put topes in the increase of the price of the goods.

06:13In the city of Barcelona, in these moments,

06:15there has been a low rate of 8% of the prices,

06:18and another great second measure is the decision

06:21to eliminate the Airbnb parking lot from November of 2028.

06:27And that means 10,000 houses that return to residencial use in the city of Barcelona.

06:33In Catalonia, it's about to regulate the temporary floors,

06:37so that they also have the same regulation of the top of prices,

06:41and that has a first consequence for investors,

06:44which is that the rentability is low.

06:46That's a disincentive.

06:48You are leading an initiative by several European mayors,

06:52and asking the EU for help.

06:54Housing is a national competence,

06:56so what can you expect from Europe?

06:58It's a European problem.

06:59It's a European problem.

07:00The European Commission has to intervene.

07:03The cities of Mayors for Housing, we are saying,

07:06put resources to the cities in an urgent way,

07:12so that we can invest in affordable housing.

07:15Housing has to be a central policy of cohesion

07:19of the European Union in this new period.

07:22They should be outside the limits of the rule of the European Union

07:26because it's an emergency.

07:28If the European citizens see that a problem of this magnitude

07:33is not addressed by the European institutions,

07:37it can be added to a legitimacy of legitimacy.

07:40So it's not only a measure of social character,

07:43but also a measure of democracy and the European project.

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