The government and representatives of the different autonomous communities have been in favor of promoting the National Housing Agreement to address existing market accessibility problems. At a discussion organized by the Madrid Real Estate Fair (SIMA), representatives of the Ministry of Transport, Community of Madrid, Junta de Andalucía, Generalitat de Catalunya and Valencian Community discussed the measures taken and expressed their differences. It entered into force with the new Zoning Law.
javier martinHousing and Land general manager of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, the institution where the new law was enacted, was the most accommodating: “We share goals and means. The future depends on us. The future depends on us, as has not been done in all democracies, for years of administrations that we have focused on producing housing. Housing agreement will be a reality. Fundamentally. Today, All political forces and administrations are committed to housing. and that reflects that we had a deficit in previous decades”.
in the same line, Elena AzcarragaGeneralitat Valencia Housing and Urban Transformation General Manager pointed out that although we are decades behind and the housing issue is “very polarized and politicized”, all administrations have very similar policies and agree that there are more. Budget is needed to expand the public park.
Maria Jose Piccio-MarchettiFor his part, the Director General of Housing and Rehabilitation of the Community of Madrid said, “I hope all administrations will be able to find meeting points.”
Administrative concessions
Participants in the discussion held on the eve of municipal and regional elections, public-private cooperation as a means of expanding the public park It is rented at an affordable price.
“We proposed to build 10,000 houses between 2023 and 2026., 2,155 by direct introduction with the Catalan Land Institute (Incasol). We will also promote public-private cooperation and build 4,000 with Next Generation Funds,” he promised. silvia grauDirector of l’Agència de l’Habitatge de Catalunya.
Alice MartinezThe Junta de Andalucía Housing Secretary announced that his community has submitted a bid for the commissioning of 3,500 apartments through surface rights. Also, Martínez defended the social housing policy initiated from his own community: “Andalusia has Spain’s largest public park, with 45% of social housing.. In total, there are 75,000 homes managed by the community, along with municipally owned homes.”
The Community of Madrid representative underlined that in addition to the 25,000 existing social homes in the area, there are 6,600 more social homes in progress in the program known as ‘Plan Vive’. Published this Wednesday A new tender to build 1,900 new homes in public-private partnershipWith subsidies tied to European Funds.
The Valencian Community also has its own recently developed public-private cooperation scheme. Awarded to Urbania and Visoren. Generalitat transfers the lands to these two private companies who will build it. 1,090 times with rents that will be below the market price.
Differences in Housing Law
The point where representatives of different administrations reveal their differences is the implementation of the Housing Law. The representative of the Ministry of Transport assured. “Housing policy is not solved with a single measure, but with the whole”referring to the fact that the new regulation on the housing market is one more norm under the proposals of the Executive.
Meanwhile, PP-administered communities such as Madrid and Andalusia criticized the ceilings on rents and the measures they deemed appropriate for “occupation”. “They will get the opposite effect of what they intended, There was a decrease in the number of rental houses and an increase in prices.as well as creating legal uncertainty”, pointed out María José Piccio-Marchetti.
Alicia Martínez, in her opinion, the recently approved law “occupies the powers of autonomous communities and that he was simple in his proposals to solve the problem”. He also took the opportunity to denounce the problem in Andalusia with tourist housing, a competition for municipalities.
The Valencia leader defended the central government’s new measures being implemented in his territory. “The Zoning Law is interesting because includes emergency measuressuch as protection of vulnerable persons or rent ceilings, and long term“It’s like the struggle to own 20 percent of public parks in 20 years, so that these highlighted areas are no longer the case,” he said.
Meanwhile, Silvia Grau noted that there is no housing in Catalonia, prices are expensive and vulnerability is high, so the law creates a framework of protection for tenants. “We have a metropolitan crown where the rent is under a lot of pressure. On the other hand, when we talk about housing, we need to talk about resources, namely money. This law was not meant to punish, but to regulate stressful areas and facilitate access to housing.‘, the spokesperson of l’Agència de l’Habitatge de Catalunya concluded.