To address a housing shortage, Spain’s second city says bank-owned properties can no longer sit empty.
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CityLab: Barcelona Forces Banks to Turn Repossessed Homes Into Affordable Housing
Austerity
Frances Coppola – Greece: The Greatest Depression
The Greek people have just lived through a Depression as deep as the Great Depression and considerably longer. It is now the greatest recorded peacetime Depression. Read here
Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
National Politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: If we treat plutocracy as democracy, democracy dies
This is probably one of the finest blogs that Simon Wren-Lewis has ever written. It is a brilliant political and media analysis. Read here
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