As we are of distracted attention, there are few statements of the many that are made in the media that we are left with, and this is lucky for people in public affairs. If they limit themselves to saying inconspicuous platitudes, they can survive for decades without causing any scandal. There are people who embroider it and retire that way. Minister Isabel Rodríguez was a little along this path. He managed to cheat the previous legislature, as spokesperson for the Executive and head of Territorial Policy without getting into many puddles. Now, however, she is Minister of Housing, just at the moment when the subject finally occupies the place on the media agenda that it already occupied in private conversations. It has become clear that the absolute disparity between what you earn for working and what you are asked for a house causes unsustainable anxiety.
In the midst of this collective a-ha moment, the ram minister uttered two words in an interview with Ser that will haunt her while she exercises: there is business. Thus, he sought to reassure real estate developers, promising them that they would continue to make money by building sheltered housing. Both with context and without, putting these two words together right now when talking about housing seems somewhere between provocative and suicidal.
The PSOE likes to boast of being “the party that most resembles Spain”, a slogan with which they headlined a self-promotion documentary and to which Pedro Sánchez often resorts. It is not understood, then, not even from the point of political calculation, this intention to align with the promoters, rentiers and even with the owners, when day after day we are seeing that the pier of the the issue is in the rent, in those people, who are no longer young, no longer dispossessed, who fight over the few houses that come on the stable housing market and have to try to pay for them with a local salary , not expat or investor.
It has also become clear that buying, that is, taking out a mortgage, does not guarantee any housing security either. With these realities so assumed, it is almost exotic that the parties that aspire to centrality continue to speak for that minority figure (and of antisocial behavior). The person who feels “housing” and thinks “business”.
