The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, urged young Spaniards this Tuesday to demand that their regional presidents fully apply the Housing Law with the aim of stopping the rent increase and facilitate access to housing.
In this way, the Government reaffirms its commitment to making housing a pillar of the Welfare State, “despite the missteps of the right,” as Rodríguez recalled, as reported by ‘Europa Press’.
10,000 new homes in Madrid
The minister has claimed that the Executive promotes both public housing for rent and ownershipwith special attention to affordability and the permanence of the public nature of these properties. In this sense, he has highlighted the construction of 10,000 homes in Madrid, in what is known as ‘Operation Camp’, whose works, he assures, have already begun. The objective, according to Rodríguez, is that no person allocates more than 30% of their income to paying for housing.
Furthermore, he has insisted that the central government was the first to make a state-level Housing Law possible, despite the fact that the Constitution has required its approval for more than four decades, and has recalled that the effective application of the law depends on the autonomous communities, which hold powers in matters of housing.
“We have up to 9 million Spaniards benefiting from this law. Citizens have to know about it and demand that their regional presidents apply it, that freezing rent today is a necessity for many people and to prevent this market from eating into families’ income.”
Point out the regional presidents of the PP
According to data provided by the Ministry, in Barcelona or Navarra, provinces where the law applies, rental prices have fallen by up to 8%. However, he has accused several regional presidents of the PP of refusing to implement the income containment mechanisms provided for in the law.
“Why don’t you, who live in Madrid, lower your rent price or freeze your rent? Because Ayuso doesn’t want to. Why don’t you, who live in Zaragoza, have your rent price frozen? Because Azcón doesn’t want it. And if you’re in Andalusia, why don’t they freeze your rent price? Because Moreno Bonilla doesn’t want it. Or in Extremadura, Guardiola, the provincial capitals are also beginning to have tension,” he said. emphasized.
Thus, the minister attributes this refusal to reasons of electoral calculation and maintains that the main beneficiary of the rejection of the Housing Law is the extreme right, which “uses housing and its link to migration as an element to generate fear.” Rodríguez regrets the “irresponsibility” of the right and denounces that the Popular Party “is being left out of the great consensus” on social policy.