Madrid (EFE).- Sumar’s spokesperson for Housing, Alejandra Jacinto, has charged the socialist part of the Government for “overturning” the measure that allowed rental contracts to be extended for 6 months to avoid “abusive price increases and evictions”. “Outrageous is little,” she said.
Through social networks, Jacinto, also a leader of Podemos, has warned that this decision “will wreak havoc on thousands of people who live for rent.”
According to Jacinto, there is no justification for not extending this measure “except to protect rentiers” and he recalled that the Executive last December justified the need to extend it by six months to “avoid abusive increases in rental prices.”
For the Housing spokesperson, who is ranked number 15 on the Sumar for Madrid lists, this proposal should be necessary “for anyone who wants to protect people from the speculative maelstrom in which we are immersed.”
The automatic extension of rental contracts is suppressed
The decree law contemplates maintaining the suspension of evictions and releases for vulnerable households for six more months, but suppresses the automatic extension of rental contracts that expire on or after July 1.
The vice president has justified the suppression of this measure in that the entry into force of the housing law already provides for the one-year extension of rental contracts for vulnerable households.
The limit of 2% to the annual update of the rent was already approved for the whole year and provided for in the housing law, while the automatic extension for six months of the rental contracts to avoid an abusive increase in prices will only be in valid for a few more days, until June 30.
The Government extends the fuel discount for carriers for another six months
The Government has decided to extend the fuel bonus for carriers not subject to professional diesel, keeping it at 10 cents per liter until September 30 and lowering it to 5 cents in the last quarter, with the aim of it disappearing at the end of the year.
The fuel bonus (which will be 13 cents until September and 7 cents until the end of the year for gas-powered vehicles) was abolished in December in general and was only maintained for the professional transport sector, although since 1 April was reduced to 10 cents per litre, half of the initial 20 cents.