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7 sats \ 5 replies \ @cryotosensei 3 Jun \ on: Is airBnB really to blame for Spain's rental crisis? econ
If the nation is short of 450k homes, where are the Spaniards staying now?
I don’t know anything about this crisis, but your post reminded me of my honeymoon in Madrid!
mostly living with their parents
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Then there's no shortage.
Like dude says below: #996439
they'd rather just live with their parents.
That's a choice, a tradeoff. You wouldn't say that there's a Netflix shortage simply because I'd rather watch YouTube/nothing than pay $9.99 a month
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Well, there are also lots of people living in tents across the country. But the root cause is that Spain is a backwards agrarian country with low wages and high unemployment. But great climate, so rich foreigners love to go there for vacations and retirement. Tourism is the number one source of income for many locals. But it is en vogue for politicians to blame outsiders for all the problems in every country nowadays.
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Yeah, these sort of figures are mostly made-up bullshit. Some report asking people whether they would like to live alone, or estimate some ideal household size vs actual.
If anything indicates a shortage, it's the above-inflation price growth — not that some people, somewhere, say that they'd like a house
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