Firstly, various initiatives have been developed to deal with the housing problem: thousands of free and protected housing have been built; it has been recognized as a subjective right; rental has been promoted; the Basque Government has invented an area of high tension. However, housing remains a serious problem.

Secondly, with regard to climate change, while there are thousands of empty dwellings in urbanized areas, the obstinate institutional policy of urbanization of natural spaces accelerates change and we have fewer and fewer green spaces in our nuclei and in our environment.

Third, although it is recognized as a right to housing, in capitalist society business prevails and any construction, individual, tourist and speculative company that wants to do business with housing will always be above the citizens' rights. Therefore, if it does not disappear, it will be difficult to solve the problem.

I will briefly explain the model I know. In Orereta we have in force the General Plan 20 years ago, during which more housing has been built than the number of people who have come to live in our people, destroying some natural green areas that were in the centre of the city. Of these, a quarter has not been officially protected. On the other hand, the City Hall sells the public domain area (right to build twenty homes), homes and premises. In addition, the City Hall has not complied with the Land Law by not providing a euro for the construction of social housing, although the law allows it. In addition, there are hundreds of empty homes. In the light of these data, it is clear that the City Hall is not very concerned about the need for social housing, since instead of creating a social housing park, it has been selling public property.

That is what has happened in our country, but I am convinced that it has happened in many other peoples, because the institutions do not have the courage to deal with the problem and leave housing policy in the hands of private interests.

We are aware that, although it is the function of the Administration, housing policy is delimited by construction and speculative companies. We also know the consequences: the high price of housing; the poor conditions of bank loans; the increasingly expensive rental, due to the influence of tourism, because a tourist has more access to housing than to develop his life; subsidies to promote rent in the hands of speculators; the policy of public housing has not solved the problem, because it has not helped the most deprived citizens, because they are left out of the limit of paying with their low wages.

I therefore say hypocrisy, because the institutions have not solved the problem, but have been increasing that problem, and now calling for the declaration of a high-tension area, as if they had solved it. Worse still, without any coordination, they tell us how many homes they want to build in each village, as if the problem was a clash between politicians and peoples.

And I say cynicism because the administration demands that citizens become aware of climate change and do five and five to stop change, knowing that when the institutions themselves intend to destroy more green natural spaces, more new urbanizations will bring more infrastructure, more consumption, more pollution -- that increase climate change.

However, there are measures that can be taken to address the housing problem. For example, the creation of a Housing Board in the municipalities, whose function would consist, among other things, in collecting the number of citizens who in our country need housing, the possibilities of payment, the dimensions... and putting on the table the need or not to build housing. This would, of course, require a halt to the control of empty dwellings and the construction of dwellings, since it is not possible to build and build dwellings as before, without knowing what the real needs are and whether they have been met. In other words, we need real public control in housing policy.

Santi Angulo Martín