Belarra reproaches the PSOE for keeping the Housing Law "frozen" and urges it to be removed with effective rent regulation

MADRID, 27 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The leader of Podemos and Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, has reproached the PSOE for keeping the Housing Law "blocked" in Congress and, aware that it "is not perfect", urges its approval and that it be regulated in a effective the price of rentals in stressed market areas.

This has been indicated in a message on Twitter, which occurs after the statements by the First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, who has distanced the possibility of establishing a maximum increase limit of 3% in the Housing Law. of all rentals in the so-called "stressed areas".

"The Housing Law is not perfect, but what surely does not fix anything is that it continues to be blocked in Congress by the majority shareholder. We need a law that effectively regulates rents in stressed areas and a large park of social housing It is urgent," he launched on social networks.

Other leaders have also spoken about these words, such as the deputy of United We Can in Congress and member of En Comú Podem, Gerardo Pisarello, for whom "what is exceptional, anomalous and intolerable is that there are people giving up up to 50% of their income to pay rent. "Nothing will be resolved if abusive rents are not stopped, minister", he has also launched on social networks.

Last week Belarra already expressed that this law is a "social urgency" and "essential", but he wants to be prudent because many times it has been said that they are close to closing it and he does not want to generate "false expectations", since people are worried for approval as soon as possible.

Of course, he stressed that with rents "through the roof" and with the rise in launch statistics, he has demanded that the improvements discussed in the meetings must be accurately contemplated in the regulatory text, something that "has not yet been has produced".

Sources from the minority partner recently expressed that they hoped to be able to unblock the regulations before the end of this month, and admitted that progress had been made in recent times that had to go through the technical supervision of the Ministry of Economy. However, with the passing of the days that optimism has been lowered.

The approaches had taken place in terms of evictions, the option of reducing the vacatio legis (the transit period until the effective application of the rule) initially set at 18 months (an aspect that Bildu and ERC also demand) and the prospects of lowering the number of homes to determine the figure of large owner, now established on 10 floors.

However, the two partners focused above all on deploying a regulation of rental prices in a stressed market area that ensures its effective operation, for those autonomies that decide to take advantage of this mechanism.

And an essential part of the debate was limited to the fit that homes that enter the rental market for the first time must have, where Podemos aspires to be directly regulated by the price index that the Ministry of Transport will prepare, understanding that it preserves more rents. low for tenants and is a very minority part of the apartments for rent.

Recently, Pisarello also pointed out that it was necessary to increase the public land reserve to increase the number of social rental housing, sanctions for bad practices and tax incentives for those companies that want to increase that park of affordable housing.