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Spain's housing crisis

November 12, 2026 · 29 min

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Get this episode's full transcript free, plus 2 more of your choice. Don't miss a single word as Rob and Lis talk through Spain's housing crisis, and get the English for every line, the Spanish for a vulture fund, and what Rob paid for a flat in central Valencia ten years ago – and what it would cost today:

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Evicted at 87 from the Madrid flat she'd lived in for 70 years, Maricarmen became the face of Spain's housing crisis. Rob and Lis tell her story, then look at the figures behind it – very little public housing, rents that have doubled in ten years, young people who can't afford to leave home – and compare it with London and Colombia. Plus the solutions on the table, from a ban on evicting vulnerable households to a 2% cap on rent rises, and whether any of them will make a real difference.

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