Thousands in Spain join nationwide march to protest against housing crisis

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨hanrahan@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/05/spain-protest-march-housing-crisis

I find this remarkable (and wonderfully recreshing) , in Australia we seemingly want to buy expensive housing to get on the grift.

As John Howard said, he was never approached by anyone about making housing more affordable, as well as Plibersek as Housing Minister in the Rudd government,.wbere before that election saying first home owners gramts where a bad idea as all they did was raise house prices, gets elected to government and increases the first home owners grant as her first task.

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guillem@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Sorry to add the depressing side but we have been protesting the rising costs of housing for decades and nothing seems to be improving. The slogan “You aren’t going to own a house in your whole fucking life” is almost 20 years old now.

We, like the Americans, keep voting right for fear of the job stealing immigrants, and then the centre-right for fear of the right steering further right (“useful vote” they call it).

I left more that 10 years ago, though. We managed to put the left in the government in the meantime, in exchange for their support to the centre-right. I don’t know how are they doing, but if there are still protests my guess is there hasn’t been a lot of improvement.

I’m too dumb to understand economy but the problem seems global and above a single country’s agency.

I won’t die on this hill tho, I haven’t pit much thougjt into my comment.

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- maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You left where and where are you now?
  
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  - guillem@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah sorry what a mess of a comment. I sometimes say “we” and “here” meaning different things without realising. I might have a bit of an identity crisis.
    
    Left Spain. Am in Australia. The comment was written from a Spaniard perspective.
    
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goodthanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m surprised (or maybe not that much) that there’s no mention of the historical context of the 1936 revolutionary war, which was partly driven by inequality. How much land must fall into the hands of the wealthy few until we see something like that again.

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