#PublicHousing, #Evictions, #SocialRental

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https://jordilltazer.substack.com/p/v...

Public housing in Spain has a problem that almost no one talks about: a city council manages 250 social rental apartments, and only 11 families pay their rent on time. It's not a vulture fund. It's a public landlord.

While the debate focuses on whether or not to evict people, almost no one looks at what happens inside public housing. In this video, I compare how public landlords manage their apartments in Spain and in Europe, using data from parliamentary responses, reports from public companies, and official documents. I'll start with L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (6,698 unpaid bills and time-barred debt, according to the PP's complaint in the plenary session) and continue with Málaga, the Madrid Social Housing Agency, a public housing development in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Bilbao, and the Canary Islands. The pattern of social housing in Spain is the same regardless of who's in power: accumulated debt, time-barred bills, expired contracts, and families on waiting lists while apartments remain unoccupied.

Then we'll look at the models everyone cites as examples. Vienna, with more than 210,000 municipal housing units (Wiener Wohnen), carried out 840 evictions in 2024 and prevented more than 800 evictions through social work. Berlin, the city that voted to expropriate large landlords, terminated 4,805 contracts in its public companies and publishes this data annually. Hamburg and the Basque Country show the same thing: those who evict few but do so promptly end up owing the least. My conclusion: the management of public housing must be relentless, which is not the same as cruel, and a public apartment is not an inheritance.

In this video I answer:

• Can someone be evicted from public housing?

• How many evictions does Vienna carry out in its municipal housing?

• Why are there empty public apartments while there are waiting lists?

• How much money do city councils lose on social housing?

Episodes:
00:00 The week of "no more evictions"
00:37 L'Hospitalet: 250 public housing units and only 11 people pay rent
01:54 Social housing in L'Hospitalet: the money that wasn't collected
03:12 The tragedy of the commons in public housing
04:04 Spain doesn't publish how many people the government evicts
04:39 Delinquency in Malaga, Madrid, Toledo, and Castile-La Mancha
06:27 It's not about political affiliations
06:45 Bilbao, the Canary Islands, and waiting lists
07:32 Maricarmen and the question no one asked
08:03 Vienna evicts: the data from Wiener Wohnen
09:45 Berlin: public housing and evictions published
10:48 Hamburg and the Basque Country: evicting in time
11:52 Should public housing allow evictions?
13:44 Public housing is not an inheritance
15:06 Conclusion and a question for you

Sources and data:
• General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), evictions carried out in 2025
• Vienna Housing Association (Wiener Wohnen) and 2024 annual report
• Berlin Senate, 2024 report on the Cooperation Association
• Basque Government, parliamentary response regarding Alokabide (2026)
• El Español, El Debate, COPE, Infobae, eldiario.es, and idealista (2025-2026)

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