Housing crisis drives voters to streets – and radical solutions | DW News

Housing costs are spiraling across Europe, leading to snap elections in Spain and the surprise victory in the city of Berlin by leftists vowing to expropriate large real estate companies. Right-wing factions also stand to gain from the crisis. Political economist Eoin Drea and housing law expert Andrei Quintia Pastrana tell DW’s Hannah Hummel how we got here – and where new policies might lead.

00:00 Housing dream becomes nightmare
00:50 Meet Eoin Drea, political economist
01:33 An eviction martyr in Madrid
02:24 Andrei Quintia Pastrana, housing law scholar
03:20 Spain’s Franco-era housing paradigm
04:50 Berlin voters welcome leftists, expropriation
05:31 Investment vehicles driving up rents
06:25 Will buying up mega-landlords work?
07:34 Housing solutions, left and right
08:32 Past due notice for mainstream parties
10:02 Feeling more at home on the fringes

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