The Kidnapping of Housing

It is not the market. It’s a manipulated game.

Living in our cities is like playing a game of manipulated Monopoly: a few accumulate property while most struggle not to stay out. The result? An increasingly unequal society, where inheriting or not can mark your destiny.

In this short, agile essay based on years of research, Jaime Palomera unravels one by one the myths that surround the housing market. Based on successful cases such as Vienna or Singapore, it shows why prices will not stop rising and how only structural changes can prevent neighborhoods and villages from becoming private fiefdoms at the service of a privileged few.

A book that not only unravels the roots of a crisis that affects millions of people, but also explains how the market is already intervened, but in favor of rentism. A call for action, to rethink current policies and to return to housing its status as a fundamental right.

• Date: 2025
• Author: Jaime Palomera
• Editorial: Península
• Keywords: housing, unequalities, public policies