Mallorca housing crisis: tents and cars fuel row
Palma, Mallorca: People are still living in tents and cars, socialist MP Ález Pitaluga tells the Balearic parliament on Tuesday as he demands immediate action on housing. “Announcements don’t give people keys,” he says.
Balearic housing minister José Luis Mateo fires back at Pitaluga’s party, the PSIB. He says the socialists failed to tackle the problem when they were in government, even though it already existed then.
Another PSIB MP, Marc Pons, accuses the government of making housing policy “only for the rich”. He says it lets large investment funds set rents as they please and fails to use its rights to buy properties ahead of other buyers.
Pons says housing decrees will be approved again in Spain’s Congress on Thursday. Mateo calls the process “underhand” because it will take place in the Congress’s standing committee.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com