Architect María Paz Martín spoke before the Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda Commission on April 25, 2022, within the framework of a series of appearances aimed at helping MPs. perfect the new housing law. Norm was then in Congress for less than three months. The project is currently in the presentation phase, which means that the same parliamentarians who listened to Martín have finally finalized the content. They are going slowly due to political differences, but at least they are going, and in fact, these days when they come to the Assembly, the Chamber is likely to join too. last yawn approval process (or failure if the differences between PSOE and Unidas Podemos, ERC and EH Bildu have not been eliminated).
Martín is one of the authors of a study on the housing situation in the “lands of the Cid” in Soria, one of the most populated areas in Europe, echoed by EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA of the Prensa Ibérica group. Both in the commission and in a subsequent meeting with this environment, the architect said, “in rural areas need rental housing because there is very little. He verbalized very interesting topics.
Examples: “Anyone who is considering moving from the city to the country is looking for a house with a plot of land and vice versa, which is currently on the market, there are floorswhere they don’t want to live.” “The market is stressful: very demanding, too little supply and too little public housing”. “If the house is vacant in the countryside, why is it not rented? Because it is settled in the minds of people living in rural areas that renting is not an option. The owners of these houses are afraid of not being paid, of being spoiled, because They are the homes of grandparents and relatives.As a general rule”.
In the research, the rental price of a house in a municipality with a population of less than 5,000 560 euros per month and in non-residential areas, the square meter price may rise to 1,400 euros.
The statement prompted Teruel Existe MP Tomás Guitarte in Congress to propose a series of changes to the housing law. The parliamentarian stresses to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA that the norm is not urban at first reading, as it emerged at the Congress; It was extremely urban. He ruled out a non-minor issue, because the Empty Spanish lands 80% of the overtime the whole country
Incentive Affordable Housing
David Lucas, former Housing Secretary at the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, contacted Guitarte before the summer of last year. The deputy went to his office twice. in May and June. They talked about how contains the reality of the countryside within the norm, because it was barely available. The study sessions were productive.
Lucas is no longer in the post, promoted to Secretary of State in the ministry, but the commitments will not be diluted. Deals are made. This environment has reached them.
Generally speaking, according to Teruel Existe sources’ version, the new law will reflect facilitating tools both in state housing plans and in actions taken by autonomous communities. fight against population decline.
Among these tools, flat rental promotion at low prices thanks to a new law: affordable affordable housing. These are those that are privately owned or owned by third sector entities that will become dependent on the competent authorities after the allocation of city planning, financial or other benefits. habitual residence for rent for low-income persons or family units who are unable to pay rent due to market developments.
Translation of certain parts of the new draft law. Article 25 will contain a reference to the aims of the new. affordable housing fund It was developed with attention to regional environments and particularly to “small municipalities affected by aging and depopulation processes”.
This targets 25.4 of the said fund. substance, protecting “individuals and families with fewer resources”who cannot be evicted; an increase in “the stock of affordable and social housing, especially in areas where the market is stressed” and “minimum percentages” from the park in question to “social or affordable housing”.
Therefore, there will be houses with this rating. social protection in evacuated towns. 25.3 advocating the creation of “a park” when in doubt. to substance subsidized affordable housing or social housingTo contribute to “price moderation”, the following will be added when it is necessary to “restore the supply and demand for rental housing”:
“To this end, the special needs of different regional areas should be taken into account, both in urban and metropolitan areas, as well as in other regions. small municipalities in non-residential areasand the characteristics of each market”.
And in article 17 there will also be the following statement, adopted by the Government and Teruel Exists: “In rural areas subject to the phenomenon of depopulation, affordable housing promoted, social and economic revitalization strategiesas well as creating employment and activity in areas such as.
stressful market
While the provisional draft of the standard is being prepared, different measures are always put into effect under the umbrella of “attention to regional reality”.
Inside article 12 Government cooperation in housing policies will remain “must take into account the necessary regional approach”, especially for “rehabilitation, refurbishment and refurbishment”. Thus, social leasing and generally affordable housing will be promoted “in both urban and metropolitan environments” and “municipalities that may be affected by depopulation”.
Regionalism will affect and accompany economic and social reality. Income, age, vulnerability, provision of services… all of these will have to be taken into account.
State plans (article 24) will be fueled by measures of various kinds (including financial measures) to “promote access to decent and adequate housing for the most vulnerable people, families and cohabitations” in urban and rural environments.
Article 18 of the Project will be relevant because it regulates what a “stressful market” for housing would be and how it would be defined and articulated. This is one of the most thorny points of current political negotiations. While pending its resolution, Teruel Existe and the Government agreed to amend article 5 of the principle, with the authority of the competent Ministry. “Regional diversity of urban or metropolitan environments and rural areas” will be another parameter to prepare plans focused on these markets.
Recall the words of the architect Mari Paz Martín quoted at the beginning. In Spain, whose population is declining, the market is also under stress, so regional priorityattention to rural reality will facilitate the deployment of legislative measures.
Reviewing the agreements reached, Rural as a management criterion. For example, for the management of the mass housing stock (Article 28). Here, according to the provisional expression, state and regional governments should regulate the urbanization of the land, rehabilitation concessions, etc., without losing sight of the “characteristics of each regional environment”. will be able to manage.
“Regional environment”. Teruel Existe, with the use of these two words in different parts of the standard, expand the scope of regulation, it won’t just be that of the PAU or the residential reality of a big city. Mass housing policies will therefore take into account 80% of the Spanish territory.