It would be enough to want to do it

It certainly wasn't the first time something like this happened, nor, unfortunately, was it unexpected, but the rejection of the housing decrees has once again left me stunned. It is seen that the political forces of our country are incapable of collaborating on essential causes, so essential, in short, that they go far beyond partisan values ​​and are transversal, affecting the entire society, whatever its ideology. I am not saying that the decrees were perfect or sufficient. Everything can be improved. But using the housing catastrophe to intensify the electoral and political pimpampum seems depressing to me (besides the fact that they must be deaf and short-sighted, given the indignation that burns in the streets).

Reality is always complex, annoying, tenacious and irreducible. It does not adapt to our will or ideologies. The real estate chaos is multifaceted and very difficult to solve, and it is made worse by the fact that it is all covered in demagoguery. Take, for example, the issue of occupation. The problem is not nearly as serious as the shameless anti-squatter companies trumpet, but it certainly exists and is worse than what certain denialist leftists maintain. A very close relative of mine has suffered it, without going any further; Some undesirables entered his only apartment in the property in the short time between two tenants, although fortunately he was able to kick them out. Because also not all squatters are wonderful families crushed by the system: there are also scoundrels. The same as among the tenants: there are scoundrels who must be evicted. In reality, I don't think we should only talk about the rights of small owners and demonize all companies; When the senseless tragedy of Maricarmen happened, a good friend told me the case of an elderly cousin of his who lived in Madrid in an apartment rented by her parents in the 1930s and that she supported with a prehistoric income. The building was acquired last year by a real estate company that, after providing the woman with another similar apartment in the same neighborhood (Lavapiés), has agreed to house her for free until the end of her days. So the question is not being a company or an individual. The question is having ethical principles or being a mean guy. I think we all know when we are behaving badly, it's just that the miserable ones don't care. Finally, I will say that there are poor evil people and wonderful rich people, a truism so completely obvious that it is embarrassing to write it, but sometimes it seems to me that I live in a world that some insist on seeing as Disney, flat and cliché, when, as I say, reality is stubborn and malicious and insists on blurring the impeccable landscapes that our prejudices have drawn.