Regulating the country

Human rights need quick solutions, which often cause flaws compared to strategic development and attention to detail. Not only it correlates with finance but also with politics, labour and migration, among others. Spain has had an important approach to socialism in the past few decades. Although we have also been affected the most on real estate greed resulting in residential urbanizations around golf courses completely unoccupied.

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Only addressing finance when talking about human rights to appropiate housing is a mistake, since economy at national levels are directly correlated with other important issues. Spanish homeowners’ concerns around their property ownership is a rising problem. Here, you might want to take a two-week vacation elsewhere and find yourself with no place to live in when you come back. Occupation has taken all over the place and a two-year legal procedure and expenditures make it difficult for a homeowner not to worry. Last summer, a city council started a proposal of leaving citizens’ house keys in the police station so that they can act almost immediately. We should not have to draw upon this.

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This also relates to social housing, not at all taken advantage in Spain. These houses are usualy given to the poor to being able to de-alienate themselves by the society. However, there are no future requirements for these, as they are still covered with the no-eviction laws. Future requirements could include searching for jobs, as Switzerland successfully has implemented. The Swiss have(or had) to present eight job interview receipts per month to collect the unemployment check. Also, it has also led to dangerous and hostile neighbourhoods which is spread to nearby colleges, thus no businesses nor economic growth being developed.

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Spending some time watching and studying closely the homeless people in Spain, I have also realised that most of them are in that situation due to social exclusion and missing knowledge. Many others due to unemployment(rate at approximately 14% as of 2022) and having relatives to support without relatives to help them(e.g. orphans with spouse and two children). They are the ones most affected from fraud, corruption and bad management. This is where politics, labour, education and migration kick in. When immigrants arrive to Spain in small boats or cross the Ceuta and Melilla borders ‘illegally’, they are well taken care regarding health issues(Spanish government feels proud of it).

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Nevertheless, they are abondoned to their luck. That being a tremendous violation of human rights, because of no assistance in their future life and no possibilities explained. It is like saying “Hey! Welcome to our country, we are pleased to have you. Good luck!”. They really do not know neither where nor how to get their documentation to be legal residents. This leads to the incapacity of receiving aids, education or jobs, therefore increasing criminality not necessarily by them, but from businessowners as well. These, out of necessity or advantage, pay them with dirty money, do not provide health insurance and even exploit them. In the counterpart, they are also the ones who take the burden of the government inaction, where they ensure that all of the above mentioned human rights are taken care of. Sadly, instead of alleviating businessowners, the government decimates them with higher taxes, no incentives and high social security costs.

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Socialism and capitalism both have the same end-goal: a better world. Though their paths to its achievement is what differentiates one another. Socialism in Spain has proven not to work. They highly increase this country’s debt and they still do not tackle the situation on its root(regulation and reforms). Not am I questioning their intentions, but critizing their recurrence on failed methods yet to burst.

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For these problems, I have some thoughts on the solutions:

-??Decrease in the total amount of EURO destined in social aids and a correspondent increase in incentives.

-??More demanding requirements on migration, preventing that an increasing amount of people are abandoned to their fait.

-??Promising documentation for the ones who immigrate, as well as a possibility of education(no matter the age status) and jobs through incentives.

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These are some harsh, yet effective proposals of mine:

-??Having the human right of living in a house if you enrolled in a community college and/or seek for a job. For that, free education should be a must in the immigration case.

-??Giving partial tax breaks to businesses which extent the philosophy stated in the last point.

-??Encouraging the movement to rural environments. Building social houses not in the city centres(where costs triple), but in the ‘forgotten’ ones and incentivising them to reignite the so-long gone economy. Did you know that Spain is one of the largest squared footed in the EU and has the most concentrated population centers, therefore creating an unoccupied country? The so-called ‘ghost towns’.

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In conclusion, the responsibility of growing as a better society where human rights are a fact, is not only from the financial sector but also from a complex mechanism on which the world has to be rebuilt. As we move towards a more civil and philantropist society, government actions on law and regulation are key to prevent the wealth feeling financially abused or unprotected, and the poor from being deprived of human rights. We need to invest in human capital.