Marga Aguilar faces eviction from her Barcelona apartment after a Dutch investment fund bought the building for temporary rentals, highlighting Spain’s housing crisis driven by investor acquisitions and rising prices. Barcelona’s mayor has implemented rental price caps and ended licenses for Airbnb homes to address the affordability problem, but activists push for immediate solutions like utilizing empty homes for long-term rentals. Amid protests and tensions between property owners and renters, the government is constructing affordable housing units to alleviate the housing shortage in the city.
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