Madrid (EFE).- The draft Law for the Right to Housing is facing final approval this Wednesday in the plenary session of the Senate, where the debate is expected to last about five hours.
Considered one of the star laws of the coalition government, the new regulation will thus enter into force in the middle of the regional and municipal election campaign on March 28, in which housing policy is taking center stage.
After its approval in Congress on April 27, thanks to a government agreement with ERC and EH Bildu, none of the 324 partial amendments or six veto proposals defended by the Basque Group, PP, will foreseeably prosper in the upper chamber. Vox, Cs, Navarra Suma and Junts per Catalunya.
The coalition partners -PSOE and Unidas Podemos- maintain that this law, together with other initiatives that they have adopted, promote a change in the model in Spain to consider housing as a right and not just as a market good.
The housing law authorizes the autonomous communities to declare stressed residential market areas and to limit rental prices in them, which has focused the political discussion around it and the rejection of the real estate sector for the last three years.