Investment Funds and Spain’s Housing Crisis

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This episode explores Spain’s deepening housing crisis, where rising prices and limited access are squeezing young people and the middle class. We examine the role of major U.S. investment funds like Blackstone and Cerberus—accused of driving up costs after snapping up properties post-2008—while uncovering how the real roots of the problem lie in a shortage of public housing and bureaucratic hurdles to new construction.