The Government approves a new measure to promote the promotion of public housing. Specifically, the session of the Council of Ministers this Monday gave the green light to a Royal Decree-Law that reinforces initiatives regarding affordable housing.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda (MIVAU), this regulation contemplates the transfer of properties belonging to the State Heritage to the Public Land Entity (SEPES)an organization attached to the ministry, with the aim of promoting access to housing at reasonable prices.
The measure establishes that these properties, previously integrated into the State Heritage, will become part of the heritage of SEPES, which will be in charge of their management. Among the entities that will provide these goods The Institute of Housing, Infrastructure and Defense Equipment (INVIED), the Railway Infrastructure Administrator (ADIF), the General Mutuality of Civil Servants of the State (MUFACE), the Penitentiary Infrastructure and Equipment Society and the Security of the State stand out. State (SIEPSE) and the Royal Boards of Trustees.
Although MUFACE and National Heritage will maintain ownership of the propertiesthe agreement between these entities and SEPES will delegate management to the latter, including its registry and cadastral regularization.
The Government protects the public nature of homes
According to the MIVAU statement, the process of The integration of these assets into the assets of SEPES will be carried out through the disposal procedure established in the Law on the Assets of Public Administrations.. However, it will be SEPES who will assume the responsibility of appraising the properties once transferred, regularizing them in their accounting and ensuring their correct use for the development of the public housing stock.
This initiative is part of the Executive’s efforts to address the housing crisis in Spain. The Minister of Territorial Policy and Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, already defended in October before the Congress of Deputies that the public nature of all the homes of the pState assets will be protected “in perpetuity”, and added that the Government ““It is not going to stop and we will do whatever is necessary to solve the housing problem, because we are a Government that listens, understands, attends and fulfills its commitments.”
Modifies the Contract Law to promote the promotion of public housing
Furthermore, as reported by Europa Press, the Council of Ministers has also approved the modification of the Public Sector Contracts Law (LCSP) to promote the promotion of public housing.
The modification that will be applied in the fifty-seventh additional provision of the law, what legal regime applicable to concession contracts for the promotion of social or affordable housing on publicly owned land or real estate. It aims to simplify and make it more flexible to facilitate “the application of the different public-private collaboration formulas included in the Law for the Right to Housing.”