Posted on 02/01/2021 12:56:02 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
Racial and ethnic discrimination in Spain has worsened in the past few years, especially in housing and education, the Equality Ministry said on Monday, fuelled by far-right politicians and fake news.
In its 2020 report, the ministry said almost one in three Black or ethnic minority respondents said they had experienced discrimination while house-hunting, starting with real estate and housing agencies and extending to landlords. This was double the levels reported in the previous 2013 study.
“The media noise about squatters mean people associate North African, Latino and Sub-Saharan people with over-crowding and squatting,” said study coordinator Anabel Suso. “People don’t want to rent to them, and real estate agencies reflect that.”
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What's the old saying? Familiarity breeds contempt.
Spain is fortunate that unlike Germany they can import Latin Americans; they already speak the language and aren’t Muslim. Some of them may even be pure Spanish from 300 years ago...
Equality ministry....insane.
Spain is being invaded by barbarians. It’s fight back or be conquered.
We flood your country with Arab and African refugees who turn your country into the sh*tholes they left behind, but if you object to this you’re a far-right bigot.
Where da blak wimmin?
The usual fake news from Al Reuters about the non existent “far right” aka Spanish patriots.
I had one black renter in 20 years. Never again. They are loud, play nasty rap music at a high level late into the night and do not respect other renters and cause fights over the littlest things
Every landlord I have spoken with has had more than their share of problems with black renters.
Since Franco died, Spain’s leftists have been steadily “progressing”, as all leftists do. Like roaches and termites, they just keep coming back (which is why Franco took great pains to kill so many of them).
Hence my first reaction to this Reuters story is that racism in Spain is probably as serious a problem as it is in the US - a problem for the left to magnify out of proportion to further “progress” to their ultimate commie goal.
Soon to be trained grateful combatants, similar to the male warriors ready to storm our border. For years we thought it was about votes, it’s not, it will be an armed insurgency, led by the leftist elites. Should we worry about who is really buying up all the guns and ammo?
Spaniards think latinos are mongrels.
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Not a landlord but I rented a room in a house with two other renters who were black and they were fine but yes YMMV.
We landlords couldn’t care less about ethnicity as long as the tenant is clean, quiet and consistently pays their rent. I have lots of tenants. Not one is Caucasian and all are great people.
Spain’s problem is their “newcomers” have so often proven themselves to be the opposite. Since it’s not possible to know in advance which camp the “newcomer” falls into, the LL’s turn away all of them.
Virtually none of this is driven by racism or prejudice. LL’s aren’t dumb. We like money. We like good tenants. This response is based on experience and exercise of discretion. It’s called survival. One “bad” tenant can cost the LL everything.
Rational people don’t walk down dark alleys in crappy neighborhoods at 3am.
Rational people don’t eat from a barrel of apples when they know a significant percentage are poisoned, hoping they’ll pull a clean one.
Rational LL’s don’t rely on the “luck-of-the-draw” when selecting tenants. It’s a logical response to counter known risks. We do criminal / credit / employment / eviction registry checks for a reason. A tenant has the burden to prove themselves worthy of inhabiting MY PROPERTY bc of those known risks. LL don’t have crystal balls. Sorry. Buy your own apartment building if you think you can do better. You will either go broke or apply your rational brain. Both cannot coexist.
“..almost one in three Black or ethnic minority respondents said they had experienced discrimination while house-hunting...”
If they said it, then it must be true.
The oligarch is determined to build the Tower of Babel. “To make a name for themselves”. We already know the remedy that God used to “fix” it. Look it up.
“People don’t want to rent to them...”
[I had one black renter in 20 years. Never again. They are loud, play nasty rap music at a high level late into the night and do not respect other renters and cause fights over the littlest things
Every landlord I have spoken with has had more than their share of problems with black renters.]
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