Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has announced a series of urgent and decisive measures to tackle the housing crisis in Spain, amid rising rental prices and a shortage of available housing. <\/p>\n\n
The new measures, revealed by S\u00e1nchez during the inauguration of a major public housing project in Madrid<\/a>, include a package of financial and regulatory policies aimed at supporting tenants and encouraging landlords to renew leases without rent increases. <\/p>\n\n Among these measures is a full 100% tax exemption for landlords who extend rental contracts without raising the rent, in an effort to stabilize rental prices in high-demand urban areas. <\/p>\n\n S\u00e1nchez also stated that his government will tighten oversight of short-term rental agreements and room settlements, introducing rent caps in areas experiencing sharp increases, aiming to curb what he described as \u201cexploitative practices\u201d driving up housing costs. <\/p>\n\n This move comes as the Spanish<\/a> housing market faces a severe shortage of available units and rent hikes<\/a> that outpace household income growth, increasing political and social pressure on the government to provide swift and sustainable solutions. <\/p>\n\n In addition to tax and rental market regulations, the government plans to expand the supply of public housing through a project to build over 10,000 units at the former Campamento site in Madrid, one of the largest public housing initiatives in the country. <\/p>\n\n These measures come amid ongoing public and community demands for fundamental solutions to provide affordable housing, with expectations that the housing sector will remain a key issue influencing Spain\u2019s political and economic landscape this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez has announced a series of urgent and decisive measures to tackle the housing crisis in Spain, amid rising rental prices and a shortage of available housing. The new measures, revealed by S\u00e1nchez during the inauguration of a major public housing project in Madrid, include a package of financial and regulatory …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[408],"class_list":["post-9988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spain-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9989,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions\/9989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europedia24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}