Valencia, Apr 16 (EFE) of Bank Restructuring (Sareb) for affordable rent and has committed to raising public housing in Spain from 3 to 20%.
At the closing of the party’s municipal conference, in Valencia, in which the Socialists have set the bases for the May elections, Sánchez has assured that the Government will go further, after carrying out the first state housing law, with a plan of measures that will be approved next week.
The Council of Ministers will approve making 21,000 homes available to municipalities and autonomous communities; promote social rental with the 14,000 homes already inhabited in that park and promote the construction of up to 15,000 public homes on available Sareb land, according to government sources.
Sánchez has described the new housing law as a “great milestone”, which is an “achievement”, he has said, not only of the progressive government coalition but of the people, because there are many parents who experience the “real problem” that It means access to housing, especially among young people.
HOUSING, A PROBLEM
“It is a problem because housing in Spain is a constitutional right, but not a real one, which means that our young people are at an unacceptable age to access housing and become emancipated,” said the president, before remarking that this situation segregates the neighborhood society.
He explained that there are studies that indicate that 70% of the inequality in a country is the product of the difficulty of accessing decent housing and he has exposed some data that “eloquently” reflects the “drama that the problems in this area.
In the European Union of the 27, Spain is the fourth country in which it is necessary to make a greater financial effort to pay the rent, a market in which the evolution of the average price per square meter has increased by 45% from 2014 to 2021 , a percentage that reaches 11% in the case of home ownership.
SPAIN, THE THIRD COUNTRY IN EUROPE IN EMPTY HOMES
Spain is, Sánchez has also indicated, the third country in the EU with the most empty homes and has only 3% of public housing, compared to an average in Europe of 9% and with countries that reach 20%.
A percentage that has been committed to reaching and that will also serve to better control the evolution of prices. “That is what I want – he said – for my country, because that guarantees greater accessibility, especially for young people, to housing and will lower the age of emancipation”.
Sánchez has also criticized the PP’s housing policy, a “resounding failure” based on turning “a right into a commodity” with three basic axes.
First, the “old mantra of neoliberalism to liberalize the land”, which “primed the real estate bubble” and speculation “in addition to the little envelopes that implied corruption”; second, the tax rebates that “only benefited developers”, and third, the “privatization of public housing vulture funds”, he has concluded. EFE