Housing Lessons From Spain

How not to solve an ‘affordability’ crisis.
Housing Lessons From Spain
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Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist prime minister, began 2026 by announcing new measures to combat the country’s housing crisis. Speaking on Jan. 12 at the launch of the Campamento project, which will see 10,700 state-owned homes built on a former military site west of Madrid, Sánchez vowed to “continue intervening in the housing market.”
Mark Nayler
Mark Nayler
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Mark Nayler is a freelance journalist based in Malaga, Spain, and writes regularly for The Spectator and Foreign Policy on politics and culture.
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