Madrid (EFE) the axes of the pre-campaign of the regional and municipal elections of May 28.
The Executive defends that this law will serve to contain rents, increase the offer in the municipalities with the most demand and protect tenants and small owners against the “abuses of large holders and investment funds.”
Predictably, the plenary session will endorse it with the support of the PSOE, UP, ERC, Bildu, Más País and Compromís, the abstention of the PNV and BNG and the vote against of the PP, Vox, Cs, Junts, PDeCAT and the Canary Islands Coalition.
The Housing Law will then go to the Senate and will return to Congress for final approval next May.
The opposition says it is unconstitutional
The PP, Cs and Vox consider that the norm is partially unconstitutional because, in their opinion, it violates the right to private property and protects the illegal occupation of flats.
They also maintain, like practically the entire Spanish real estate sector, that limiting rents will have the opposite effect to that desired because it will detract from the offer.
For their part, the pro-independence and sovereignist parties that reject the rule believe that it involves an invasion of the housing powers that the autonomous communities have exclusively.
stressed areas
The law authorizes the autonomous communities to declare a territorial area as a stressed residential market area, if the average cost of the mortgage or rent plus basic expenses and supplies exceeds 30% of the average household income or the price of buying or renting has risen at least three points above the CPI in the previous five years.
In these stressed areas, rents will be capped depending on the type of contract and property, through the indexation to the previous rent in force for small owners and through the application of the price containment index for large holders.
The communities governed by the PP, with Madrid at the head, have already assured that they are not going to make use of that power.