Juan Pedroa resident of Parla, appears on Telemadrid desperately denouncing that his tenants stopped paying the rent two years ago, at the same moment in which he told them that they had one year to find another apartment, since he was going to be a father and needed. The Moroccan family to whom he rented it for the modest price of €400, now tells him that they are vulnerable peoplewho know the law and who are neither going to pay nor leave. Juan Pedro has already been a father, but now he supports two families, between anxiety attacks.
While in the demonstration that occurred a few days ago in Madrid, which was supposedly to fight against abusive rents, they tell us about evil landlords, speculators and vulture funds, I take a look at portals like Idealistic and what I find are homes for sale, all over Spain, squatted, warning in the advertisement itself that it cannot be visited and that the state of the interior of the property is unknown, because the squatters do not allow access to it. Maybe you buy an apartment in which they have torn out even the radiators from the walls or they have lifted up the parquet floor in the living room to bury their grandmother or a junkie who was passing by there underneath.
Did you think that socialism takes care of the poor? What it is responsible for is producing more poor people and ensuring that the rest of us support them,
I am shocked to see that various ministers and members of the Government demonstrate against a situation, demanding a change, when they themselves are the ones who have caused this situation and have it in their power to change things. I thought that people demonstrate so that those in the offices can listen, to make themselves heard. It is seen that our rulers need to demonstrate because they do not even listen to themselves.
Juan Pedro is being asked to take care of a family that declares itself vulnerable, even at the risk of ruining himself, just because the Government is not capable or does not feel like taking care of those families. Did you think that socialism takes care of the poor? What it is responsible for is producing more poor people and ensuring that the rest of us support them, as long as we can and until we become part of that list of people without resources.
Although we cannot limit ourselves to saying that anyone who stops paying rent or breaks into a house that is not theirs, by force, is vulnerable. As soon as you talk to anyone who has a squatter concern, you will discover that more than vulnerability, what there is is a lot of slander and a lot of shamelessness. He doesn’t pay you rent because he is vulnerable, but he has a restaurant in Madrid. He doesn’t pay you rent because he’s vulnerable, but he has a property on the outskirts that he’s renovating. She doesn’t pay your rent because she’s vulnerable, but she makes TikTok videos with designer bags and clothes, like she’s one of the Kardashians.
As if that were not enough, I see a young lady in said demonstration, who claims to belong to a tenants unionensuring that their solution to stop rent increases is to stop paying. Dazed, I turn to the RAE and make sure that union still means the same thing as always: “Association of workers established for the defense and promotion of professional, economic or social interests of its members.” Only in this country could it happen that being a tenant became a profession, with a union that threatens to “go on strike.” If the homeowners “go on strike,” you won’t have enough bridges to live in, nice.
Let no one rent their home
In my opinion, what this new guru of the housing problem is doing is not inciting people to go on strike, but to commit a crime. No matter how much he assures that “there will be no police“, judges or thugs enough to evict us all,” the truth is that yes, There are mechanisms to evict everyone and the only thing that would be achieved with this position is that the most unprotected people will have it even more difficult when it comes to accessing a rental. I’m going to explain it in a way that even Valeria understands: if you decide that it is appropriate to pass a contract through the triumphal arch, arguing that in this way you help single mothers and vulnerable families, what you are going to achieve is that no one will rent their home to this type of people, due to the fear and risk that they pass the contract through the same triumphal arch as you and that squatting or non-payment be facilitated. If instead of fighting against people who stop paying rent or squat a home, what you want is for social policies to be the responsibility of the owner and not the Government, what you are going to find is that the owners tighten the rules much more. conditions to rent their home, looking for guarantees that no one wants to give them. So that you understand it too, Valeria: the game is mine and, if you are going to cheat on me, I will take it and you will not play.
What hurts me is that there are still people who allow themselves to be fooled by gurus who come out of nowhere, who claim to fight for your interests, but in reality they only fight for their own, since everything they propose, as has been demonstrated in all countries where interventionist measures have been imposed, the rental supply worsens and does not improve the situation at all for anyone, except for those whose sole objective is to become leaders of this interventionism and obtain some benefit through politicians.
A young lady is being given a voice who says that “the big problem in Spain is that home ownership has become normalized as something acceptable.” No, Valeria, the big problem in Spain is people who want to take advantage of the effort, work and money of others, people who are not capable of doing something productive with their lives and try to live off the story, deceiving the rest. The big problem in Spain is that there are too many people like you.
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