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What more houses! I thought I read somewhere recently that there are 1000,000 empty properties over the whole of Spain with overbuilding to the tune of 500,000 houses each year compared with the avarage for the rest of the European community.
As the bottom of the housing market and prices are set to drop dramatically oner the next year (down played in the short term till after the elections)I cannot understand this new announcement? except that is to provide more money to local town halls from foreigners who can afford to buy where locals cannot and for "certain political people" who stand to gain and who will certainly be involved in handing out contracts etc and also in more housing contributions received. Words come to mind as follows ... Corruption, Black money,false permissions, blind eyes, Alcaldes, palm greasing, deception, Marlebella, etc etc The list goes on ...

First it was Golf courses being used as an excuse to build thousends of houses and now it seems like Social homes are the new excuse!
I am all in favour of helping the poorer class and young people to have a decent home so why not stick to helping these people only? I am at a loss to understand why they will be including more than 50% of better quality houses for the better off?
In the area where I live in the provincia of Cadiz many people are still living in slum conditions without hope of living a better life due to the current prices of housing and rented accommodation. That said however, here they have been building houses "like there was no tomorrow" and the result... more than half the new built houses are still empty one year on and most of the other half have been purchased by people who do not live in the area, play no part in the local community,the only reason to purchase such houses being in order to make a quick buck and then sell on within six months or so. Obviously these proposed mixed communities will have to be seperated to a great extent into security zones as who will want to purchase a house and then live next to or close to poor normal families where the same facilities will have to be shared.