41% of respondents in this year’s Deustobarometer cite housing as one of the country’s biggest problems. In the survey from a year ago this was only 16%. Moreover, citizens suspend social housing policy (they give it a score of 3.8 out of 10).
The problem of housing and evictions has strongly emerged as one of the first concerns of citizenship of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV), according to the winter deustobarometer.
The house is listed by the 41% of people surveyed is a percentage that has increased dramatically in the past year – it has increased by 25 points, almost threefold—. In 2023 it was only cited by the 16% (he was fifth in the rankings). Now the real estate group is almost on the same page healthwhich is still the biggest problem in Euskadi for 42%. The third place is taken by the cost of living (33% believe this to be the case).
This is one of the conclusions gathered in the latest edition of the survey, which was prepared by 40dB based on a thousand interviews conducted between November 19 and December 4, and whose main data was released this Thursday by the project directors, María Silvestre and Braulio Gómez, together with researcher Iratxe Arístegi.
Citizens are not only one of the biggest concerns right now, but are also pessimistic about the future: 31% of respondents believe so never can buy a house and 28% admit that this will take ten years.
So the Basque people suspends public housing policyand they give a score of 3.8 out of 10. Likewise, the majority of citizens support the state’s intervention in the housing market. A large majority, 7 in 10, are in favor of declaring areas under pressure to impose rent ceilings, the construction of social housing (86%), increasing rental deductions (76%) and allowing municipal councils release more land. to expand the supply of free housing (75%).
Striking fact: 76% of respondents would set a limit so no one could owns more than two properties.
A large majority (91%) admit that they prefer owning to renting, and that buying property is the best form of investment (86% believe this to be the case). Similarly, 7 in 10 respondents believe that renting is a waste of money.
Source: EITB
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