Santa Cruz de Tenerife, May 7 (EFE) Line of guarantees of up to 20% of mortgages to facilitate access to a house.
These guarantees will be managed through the Official Credit Institute (ICO) and will be used to purchase the first home for young people under 35 and families with dependent minors, as announced by Sánchez.
The president, who participated in Tenerife in an electoral act of the PSOE of the Canary Islands, said that the housing policy involves increasing the offer through the construction of subsidized housing, with the aim of making it at least 20% of the full house.
“When the right talks about housing, it talks about land for speculation and a luxury good, we want to turn it into a constitutional right and a basic necessity,” said the PSOE leader.
According to government sources, guarantees for 20% of mortgages for people under 35 years of age are limited to individual incomes of up to 37,800 euros per year or double that if there are two homebuyers.
In the case of families with dependent minors, there will be no age limit, but the same income limits, although there will be improvement factors depending on the number of children and it will increase in the case of single-parent families.
“We are going to put all the resources at the service of housing, which is a national cause” due to the difficulties in accessing this right due to the increase in the purchase and rental price, said the president at a rally attended by some 800 people, according to PSOE sources, the maximum allowed in the Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA) venue.
The socialist leader recalled that the state plan promotes the construction of 100,000 subsidized homes, which will allow an increase of 50% in the next five years, and maintained that the increase in supply through subsidized housing will help contain the prices of housing market and the emancipation of young people.
The president recalled that the Ministry of Defense is going to cede land for the construction of 20,000 subsidized homes, of which 300 will be on the island of Tenerife, he announced.
The land that will be ceded to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, is located in the Engineers, Ofra Vistabella and La Cuesta barracks, in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, the PSOE later reported.
Sánchez said that the government’s policies show that from social democracy social orientation is compatible with economic growth and he was sympathetic that on the right they are “rabid” and resort to insults, because their alternative is “cuts and precariousness”. that they practiced since 2012.
“They said that we were going to have a hot autumn due to social discontent and Spain is the country in Europe with the greatest social peace,” said Sánchez.
They also said that the increase in the minimum wage or the equalization of pensions to the CPI was going to reduce employment or endanger public pensions and the opposite has happened, he assured.
“We are showing that socialists govern the economy and social policies better, we are knocking down the paradigms of neoliberalism and that is why they are angry,” he said.
For Sánchez, “the national and nationalist right” is installed in “insult and disqualification” and in opposing all media that benefit the social majority because “they defend the interest of an elite.”
“Being a socialist is doing and not “undoing, cutting, making precarious and inflicting social damage”, as the right does, he said.
It is also “dignifying” the lives of people with pension policies, minimum wage, minimum vital income and with a labor reform that ensures that one in two contracts are indefinite, he explained.
The president was pleased that the World Health Organization (WHO) had decreed the end of the emergency due to covid-19 and stressed that lessons must be drawn from what happened, such as the importance of supporting public health, the science and Europe. EFE