Overview
- Irene Tinagli, who leads the European Parliament’s housing crisis committee, called in Barcelona for a stable EU framework that aligns national policies without imposing a single model.
- Her near-term proposals include mobilizing vacant public housing, regulating tourist rentals and using targeted 'tensioned zones' to tailor interventions.
- Longer-term, she urged renewed investment in social housing and predictable rules to draw in private and third-sector partners through economically sustainable models.
- Experts highlighted Spain’s structural shortfall, noting it builds roughly half the necessary homes and lags countries like France, the Netherlands and Sweden where social housing reaches 20% to 30%.
- Data presented pointed to heavy cost burdens on renters in Spain and warned that frustration is feeding support for radical measures, prompting calls for coherent, less bureaucratic plans that coordinate all levels of government with the private sector.