Housing & Planning · Housing supply
Murcia: convicted squatters barred from social housing
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Following Madrid's lead, PP-led Murcia will exclude anyone convicted or sanctioned for squatting or breaking-and-entering in the previous ten years from accessing protected housing, bundled with a deregulatory permitting reform building on Murcia's July Affordable Housing Decree.
Britain has its own debate on allocations policy and antisocial behaviour; Spanish regions are writing conduct conditions directly into eligibility law — a policy-lab the UK right largely ignores.
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