The EU united for Alicante, where Podem, ERPV and Alianza Verde are nominated for the municipal elections to be held on 28 May, and announced that one of the measures it will take if it reaches the municipal administration will be the municipality. Special foreclosures for large homeowners with more than a dozen vacant properties. They confirm that the initiative, announced during a demonstration by the Minister of Housing and the coalition’s regional candidate, Héctor Illueca, in the Zona Alta, was due to a wave of unfair evictions, rising rental and purchase prices. the presence of thousands of empty apartments in the city. Illuca highlighted this The body wants to put 1% of Generalitat’s budget, about 300m euros, for this purpose, putting the regeneration of vulnerable neighborhoods at the center of its policies..
The minister met with the mayoral candidates, mayor Manolo Copé and mayor Xavier López, at the Plaza de Algeria, which he organized. with a meeting and different neighborhood assets They stand out about the housing situation in one of the most affected areas for institutional abandonment and lack of investment in public donations.
In this context, one of the aims of the stampede candidacy for the next legislature is support and Expanding the Action of the Community Regeneration of Vulnerable Neighborhoods ProgrammeTo have a Municipal Housing Board and Housing Department, as well as to implement a plan for the construction and rehabilitation of rental social housing, and to increase intergenerational housing in different neighborhoods of the city.
For Manolo Copé, the coalition’s mayoral candidate, “it is remarkable that all parties are now interested in proposing housing measures, but according to him”During forty years of bipartisan rule, neither the PP nor the PSOE prevented housing from becoming a market commodity rather than a right.”. “We need urgent measures to ensure that young people in Alicante do not have to pay 60% of their income on rent,” said Copé, “underlining the need to expand the stock of public housing and set limits on the price rent” continues to rise due to tourism. .
Unides Podem councilor and number two member of the merger candidacy, Xavier López, highlighted the need for the municipality’s cooperation with the Generalitat. implementation of the first refusal and withdrawal agreement It regulates the holiday home market and initiates a gradual tax reform so that “our neighborhoods do not become theme parks that exile our neighbors”, which “enables the acquisition of properties that would otherwise fall into the hands of investment funds”. “aimed to tax large homeowners more strongly.”