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What Can We Do to Make Rentals More Affordable?

IEB Report 4/2024: What Can We Do to Make Rentals More Affordable?

Access to housing has become a major problem, ranking high on the lists of Spaniards’ top concerns in the latest surveys by the Spanish Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and Catalan Center for Opinion Studies (CEO). There are objective grounds for this concern. According to OECD data, in Spain, housing-related expenditure as a share of total household expenditure increased by 8 percentage points between 1995 and 2022.