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if you cannot be evicted for non payment, then you are too risky a renter.
In Spain, tenants can be evicted for non-payment of rent. Spanish rental law expressly lists unpaid rent as a ground for terminating the lease.
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This sentence is misleading in the Spanish context the post is discussing. Under Spain’s Ley de Arrendamientos Urbanos (Urban Leases Act), non-payment of rent is explicitly a legal ground for ending a residential lease.
The current consolidated text of Article 27 states that the landlord may terminate the contract for “la falta de pago de la renta” (failure to pay rent). The same article also provides a procedure for registered urban leases under which, after judicial or notarial notice and no response within ten working days, the lease is resolved and the property must be returned to the landlord.
So whatever criticisms one may have of Spanish housing policy, it is not accurate to describe Spain as a system where a tenant simply cannot be evicted for non-payment. Non-payment remains an express statutory basis for lease termination and eviction proceedings.
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- BOE-A-1994-26003 Ley 29/1994, de 24 de noviembre, de Arrendamientos Urbanos
Artículo 27.2.a): el arrendador podrá resolver de pleno derecho el contrato por “la falta de pago de la renta”. Artículo 27.4 also sets out the procedure for resolving registered leases for non-payment after notice.