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Underground © La Escalera de Jacob

29 May 2018

Underground © La Escalera de Jacob

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On Wednesday, Spain became the first European country to record more than a million cases of the coronavirus virus. We've now moved back to curfews and will be locked down between 11pm and 6am every night for a possible 6 months.

Oh, but in Madrid, some 2,800 people are exempt: the homeless.

Link in bio @madridnofrills.

Puerta del Ángel is a lovely barrio, full of no-f

Puerta del Ángel is a lovely barrio, full of no-frills bars, restaurants representing multiple continents and a mercado whose gentrification has been paused by the pandemic, for now.

The neighbourhood's treeless, car-lined, tarmac streets descend east down towards the Manzanares River – one of Madrid's biggest invisible borders. The barrio sits in the shadow of two of Madrid's most visited monuments: the Palace and the Opera House, and just east of the old Western Front.

Average pre-pandemic household income in the barrio was around €10,000, and average annual rent + bills for a 2-bed property is still around the same.

This net-zero effect is a problem, so how do we overcome it? Well, apart from increasing minimum wage (a conversation for another day), we can regulate the property market!

Below are some suggestions that cities across Europe are in the process of implementing, namely Barcelona, Berlin and Vienna:

🏠 Make Airbnb illegal
🏠 Cap rent prices
🏠 Confiscate any private property that sits empty for more than one year
🏠 Confiscate bank-owned properties
🏠 Don't evict people who can't pay their rent
🏠 Build social housing
🏠 Stop councils selling off social housing to BlackStone
🏠 Stop calling it a property 'market'

If other cities are doing it, Madrid can too. It's really not that wild an idea.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼 𝗸𝗶𝗼𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗱'𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 💕

These stubborn little tin huts hold the torch of Madrid’s street food culture. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and our new desire for outdoor eating, they’re a way of life that may well return!

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Words and photos by MNF Blogger of the Future Alumni @rishabh.a 🙌🏽

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Something to brighten up your day! 💡👀

(Pun intended)

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Syrian refugee 'Nabil' , Spanish volunteer Sara and 20 refugee children with disposable cameras aim to give us a window into their stopgap world. Read the full story linked in bio @madridnofrills 🔍

Thank you to so much to Sara Aminiyan of @aminiyanll and Carlos Gutiérrez of @myviewproject for their help in bringing this article together ❤️

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