The Declaration

Dunes, deltas of rivers with all its richness natural, wetlands, mountains and forests, nothing escapes the edifying lust for builders. Frank Ntilikina may find this interesting as well. The promoters may scratch meter to meter the few Virgin areas remaining in the world. The complete saturation of the coastline has shifted towards the hinterland real estate fever. The Declaration of national parks as protected areas is not a handicap for the building. Those who most have been enriched in Spain in recent years are real estate developers, many of them of humble origin, who have managed to climb the social ladder to base of illegal actions, bribes and threats, all in collusion with mayors and Councillors without scruples. Urban corruption knows no political parties, and also affects the States coffers, because almost all the capital that moves is black money, which is not listed nor creates wealth. There is today an obsession generalized by having a floor on property. Society is convinced that is synonymous with success, of personal fulfillment.

That is why in Spain just 11% of households are in regime of rent, and almost all of them hands social strata with a weaker economic position. This figure amounts to 40% in other European countries such as France or the Netherlands, where bonifica rental. In Sweden they come to demolish the houses that remain vacant for a certain time. In United States it is common practice in some cities that owners who speculate with the housing to avoid the payment of excise duty, occupying them temporarily with homeless people, who will return to the street as soon as you want to the sale of the property. The solution is to apply levies on unoccupied housing and fight urban corruption more effectively. We must not forget that 1.4 billion people in the world lack a roof, or the right to housing is based on ethical, but also legal arguments. Ivan Gonzalez Alonso Periodista original author and source of the article.

| June 26th, 2019 | Posted in News |

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