Solving the housing problem is not easy, and even solving other people’s housing problems is not easy at all. Interestingly, it is in this second situation that the most creative (even misleading) ideas emerge and self-confidence turns into decrees having the force of law.
If your dream is to live in the little shoe store on the corner that closed twenty years ago and have the only window facing the street, if your dream is to raise a family in a renovated garage, if you really want to live in a small-sized apartment and sleep in a 90-bed bed all your life, welcome to our autonomous community in the Balearic Islands welcome. These solutions to the housing problems experienced by some will not prevent them from continuing to sell houses, mansions and properties to wealthy Europeans who can afford to pay their exorbitant costs, or renting them out to tourists to stay vacant for weeks or as second homes. almost all year round, but that is not the case here, we are communists but advocates of the free market. What would the authors of this new regulation be like, which would allow the raising of floors in buildings in congested areas, the conversion of commercial buildings, the addition of a few logs here and there on protected properties, the construction of mini-flats for the poor, and other gifts? If these dreamy urban planners are looking with a certain rush or desperation for a place to live, own or rent, the ribbon-wrapped “limited price” is exactly where we’ll see how much is left. They would do the same thing as architects who propose turning shipping containers into apartments: look for a place that is normal and ordinary, traditional and conventional, with natural light and always enough yards to avoid tripping over boxes of clothes. season. I wonder how many of the government members, advisors, and command staff live in small apartments similar to the apartments they sponsor for the middle and working class. We do not know and cannot know whether the government will disclose confidential information regarding the assets of public officials as a sign of transparency.
If less is more in terms of housing comfort for the right, more is the same in terms of services. The ground floor of a building a stone’s throw from where I live has been converted into several houses, some with their own pools, and put up for sale with multilingual posters for prices exceeding around a million euros. They previously housed a store and workshop. They demolished the bakery to build an apartment building, they will demolish the kitchen workshop, and they closed the bar for the same purpose. Unfortunately, the new profitability provided by depleted commercial facilities will further weaken the vitality of neighborhoods and many districts, driving residents to shopping malls with their private vehicles. Fortunately, older people will have pharmacies that withstand the real estate onslaught. For their part, overpopulated areas where constructability increases will receive a population boost, not to mention the creation of more schools, healthcare, or new recreation areas. Emergency precautionary decrees are not prepared to repair the consequences of the so-called executive thinking proposals in the medium term or even in the future. And now is not the time.