Broken Doors

Everything is different now from almost 10 years ago when the small town of Villacañas was part of Spain’s middle class, enjoying high wages and permanent jobs. During the construction boom years the majority of the doors used within the newly built developments in Spain were made in Villacañas. Until the housing bubble burst and no one needed a new door. Villacañas is typical for many former buoyant industrial Spanish towns, continuing to struggle with high levels of long-term unemployment. Spain's surprising economic recovery this year is failing to prevent a growing gap between rich and poor increasing the risk of social exclusion with these high levels of long-term unemployment. Inequality is set to be one of the main issues in this years Spanish general elections. The new-coming opposition party Podemos claims that the growing poverty rates shows that the economic recovery fails to reach the many unemployed Spanish families.