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Spain: a solution to the housing emergency?
Prime Minister Sánchez at a forum on housing in Madrid on 13 January. (© picture alliance/ZUMAPRESS.com/Guillermo Gutierrez Carrascal)

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced an action plan to tackle the country's escalating housing shortage. Empty flats are to be converted into affordable rental flats with the help of subsidies and tax breaks and 3,300 public flats are to be built as an initial measure. In addition, there will be new restrictions on holiday flats and property ownership by non-EU citizens.