Spain housing crisis deepens as tenant protections backfire, price caps fail

An opinion piece in Die Presse argues that Spain's excessive tenant protections and price caps are worsening the housing crisis rather than solving it, citing the case of Maricarmen. The piece claims the political response—price controls instead of new construction—is counterproductive, but this is an editorial viewpoint, not a factual report. The housing crisis in Spain and Europe is real, but the causal claims are contested.