In the starting signal for the municipal and regional elections on May 28, Pedro Sánchez has placed the attempt to solve the "problem" of access to housing at the center of his priorities. In this context, the Prime Minister has announced that the Council of Ministers will approve next Tuesday a plan for renting out 50,000 Sareb flats at "affordable prices".
The long-term goal that the PSOE Secretary General has set for himself is to increase to 20% the property park owned by the administrations, which currently stands at 3% in contrast to the European average of 9%. For the meagerness of that figure in Spain, he has blamed the PP for "privatizing" by selling them to "vulture funds" the houses that "the town halls built with the effort of the people."
"Housing is a constitutional right, but not a real right," said Sánchez during his speech at his party's municipal conference that was held this weekend in Valencia. "If we increase the offer not with more free housing, but with public housing, it will serve to better cushion and control the evolution of the price," he added.
In the plan to make Sareb's assets profitable, the socialist wing of the Government proposes making 21,000 homes available to municipalities and autonomous communities, promoting social rental with the 14,000 already inhabited in that park and promoting the construction of another 15,000 on vacant land. those that also have the popularly called bad bank.
From Unidas Podemos they have recalled that it is a measure that they have been "demanding from the beginning of the legislature." "Very good news that I wish would have arrived sooner. We think that not only these, but all the Sareb homes should form part of the public park. Much remains to be done," said the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, through from your Twitter account.
The announcement comes just after the Housing Law - which had been stuck in Congress for three years - was unblocked this week after the agreement reached between the coalition government and its partners ERC and Bildu. Moncloa has accelerated the process because there was interest in having it approved before the appointment with the polls on 28-M in order to use it as an electoral asset.
The main novelty that the regulation will introduce once it enters into force is that the rents that are located in stressed market areas will be regulated and capped, regardless of whether the properties are owned by large holders or small owners and both for new contracts as those already in force. The maximum prices will vary according to the type of lease and the profile of the landlord.
At the closing of the PSOE municipal conference this Sunday in Valencia, 4,000 people attended, including the third vice president and minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, the holders of the Treasury portfolios, María Jesús Montero; Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños; Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez; Transportation, Raquel Sánchez; Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares; Health, José Miñones; Education, Pilar Alegría; Science, Diana Morant; and Culture, Miquel Iceta; and the president of the Senate, Ander Gil.
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