The Catalan government is open to severe intervention in the housing market. Given the current crisis caused by rising rental prices and the difficulties the Catalan population is having in accessing an apartment, the president of the Generalitat (Catalan government), Salvador Illa, stated during the control session this Wednesday that the government will study the possibility of prohibiting speculative home purchases. He also stated that it would limit the number of homes per person. The anti-capitalist MP Laure Vega demanded action along these lines, and the president responded that he himself had asked the Minister of Housing, Silvia Paneque, to have the department study the matter. "I've been open to studying everything; now, studying it means studying it. We are already studying new measures like the ones you're proposing here today, and we must be certain that they are viable and effective, and if we have it, we will communicate it," Illa asserted, although government sources later emphasized that it is only a matter of studying all the proposals.