Barcelona’s Latest Affordable Housing Tool: Seize Empty Apartments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-16/to-fill-vacant-units-barcelona-seizes-apartments

by riffraff • 6 years ago

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bloomberg.com

pmiller23• 6 years ago

Works for me.

tribeofone• 6 years ago

Probably because you've never worked for anything in your life

CogitoCogito• 6 years ago

Seems like a fairly straight forward application of the law against the landlords. Are you implying those landlords should not be bound by the law?

dang• 6 years ago

Please stop posting flamebait to HN. You've been doing it a lot and we ban such accounts.

Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, so no more of those either, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

im3w1l-alt• 6 years ago

Are vacation apartments included? And if they are not how can officials know whether someone visits a few weeks a year? Or will this target company owned apt complexes?

marcusverus• 6 years ago

From the article:

For the properties to be eligible for forced purchase, they must have no tenant contract for two years and no record of recent power or utilities use, meaning that occasionally-used second homes do not appear on the list.

Barcelona’s Latest Affordable Housing Tool: Seize Empty Apartments

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