Mallorca housing: caravans face luxury flats in Palma

Mallorca’s housing divide is on show in Secar de la Real, Palma: people live in caravans opposite luxury homes, and Francina Armengol opens her election campaign there on 13 November. The Balearic Socialist Party (PSIB) candidate is standing for Spain’s Congress of Deputies in the 29 November general election.

Armengol says the people in the caravans earn decent wages but still cannot afford a home, according to a PSIB statement. She accuses Balearic president Marga Prohens’s government of favouring luxury homes and so-called vulture funds, and says People’s Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo backs the same housing policy.

Armengol wants more publicly subsidised homes, limits on rents and action against speculation. She also points to a housing decree approved on Thursday by the Permanent Deputation of Spain’s Congress of Deputies. It provides for rental contracts to be extended automatically for two years. Armengol is asking voters to give progressive parties bigger majorities on 29 November so they can make housing easier to afford.

Topics: Housing · Politics · Palma

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com