For the first time, the city council has decided to limit the new licenses to homes that have an independent entrance. The Andalusian city has experienced a huge increase in tourist housing in recent years and an unprecedented increase in rental prices.
Malaga has thus joined other Spanish cities that have promoted more restrictive measures, such as San Sebastián, Barcelona or Valencia.
A situation that is at the end of the street: “It is the typical gentrificationit seems that we are in Berlin, Barcelona or New York because they are cities like cut and paste and directly the increase in prices, the vulture funds that are behind all this”
The social drama of unpayable rents
The difficulty finding rentals that can be paid is a general concern: “Here in Malaga you cannot pay rent and live with a good average salary. It is an impossible mission”
Recovered from pandemic trauma The capital of Malaga has 12,124 homes registered for tourist use in the Registry of the Junta de Andalucía.
In Spain as a whole there are more than 350,000, with 1.75 million places offered according to data from the National Institute of Statistics from last February.
Malaga has no plans to build public housing that would allow cheap rentals to be offered in a market of increasing prices.
