Housing pressure in the lake region is not only “lack of supply”: it is how supply is used. When much of the stock targets short seasons or second homes empty most of the year, people who need primary housing — to work, study, and raise children here — compete with models that pay better in a few weeks.
The manifesto describes gentrification and touristification: rising land prices, neighborhoods empty in winter, families leaving because they cannot find year-round leases. In Lican Ray and similar areas, a long-term rental can be nearly impossible to find.
Roots and upward mobility
Roots do not mean staying stuck forever. We want people in Villarrica, Pucón, and Licán Ray to stay and, when their situation improves, move up — more space, better quality, buying the next home — without being pushed out by speculative prices or having to leave the commune.
That requires rental and sales markets where homes for residents are not displaced by tourism use in houses that could be year-round homes.
What we believe (summary)
- Housing is, first, for living in.
- A place’s value is its year-round community.
- Profitable business and a long horizon can coexist; we reject very short-term extraction.
See What we reject and propose and the renters’ guide.