Balearic Government under fire over its housing policies
There were eight years "without housing policies"
The Balearic Government's housing policies came under fire from opposition parties and from Vox in parliament on Tuesday.
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Until the government tackle the problem of squatter rights (so easily exploited by criminal gangs) they will never tackle the housing problem. Landlords just don’t have rights. So they don’t risk renting their properties. This leads to empty properties and honest renters suffering, because of the shortage of rental properties. It’s simple …. Squatters have rights - which are exploited by criminal gangs. It’s easy, the gangs pop families into rental properties. They stop paying rent and claim ‘squatters rights’. Then the gangs charge the landlords thousands of euros to remove the ‘squatters’. It’s an illegal money making machine. And now there’s a new criminal scheme. First the gangs identify houses that are empty for ‘periods’ of time. They break in, they change the locks. Then, and this is the clever bit, the gang sell the new key to people desperate to rent. Who then (you’ve guessed it) claim squatters rights. It’s desperate. But the criminal gangs are making a killing. And the government has done absolutely nothing to tackle this problem. Apart that is, from popping their heads firmly in the sand.
Radical junior coalition partner of current government says miracle cure for a highly complex and incredibly difficult issue has not been achieved after 1 year. Funny, that's eerily similar to what the last radical junior coalition partner said about the last government.