Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the plan this week to tackle housing affordability and high rents in the Southern European nation.

Spain is planning a raft of measures to address its brewing housing crisis, including an up to 100% tax on properties bought by non-European Union residents.

Violeta Lorenzo Feliciano, an associate professor of Spanish, has won the 2024 PEN de Puerto Rico Internacional's National Essay Prize for her book, A Base de Palos.