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What will and will not work in the new housing policy to improve access to rental housing
The new housing policy aims to solve the evident rental problems in Spanish cities through price controls in stressed areas and an effort to increase the supply of social rental housing. The effort on access is promising and goes in the right direction to solve the problem, while the controls could prove counterproductive. The commitment […]
Jorge Galindo, Ángel Martínez Jorge, Javier Martínez Santos, Natalia Collado Van-Baumberghen
3 May, 2023
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9 Feb, 2023
Rent control has become a central part of the public policy debate. Catalonia implemented one in December 2020: Law 11/2020, which capped rents in Catalonia for a year and a half. An evaluation of the Catalan experience based on microdata and a precise methodology, comparing homes affected and unaffected by the regulation, is essential not […]
9 Feb, 2022
Territorial polarisation is among the main megatrends of 21st-century globalisation. The causes of depopulation are structural and are associated with the dynamics of globalisation and agglomeration economies. In this policy brief we analyse data on the evolution of depopulation in Spain over the last 25 years and study the different manifestations of the territorial divide: […]
26 Oct, 2021
En el presente documento analizamos al detalle los componentes clave (control de precios, medidas fiscales y aumento de oferta) de la nueva y ambiciosa Ley de Vivienda presentada por el Gobierno.
