The Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodriguezreproached this Wednesday the PP let me throw your own plan to address the housing problem instead of collaborating with the Government to carry out initiatives that are already “on the table”, such as the reform of the land law or the application of the housing law. Rodríguez has asked those of Alberto Núñez Feijóo that they stop “boycotting” the actions undertaken by the Executive before “inventing” new proposals.
“I am glad that they stop insulting and boycotting laws as positive as the land law and put them in the proposal,” said the head of Housing in reference to the plan announced by the PP to address the housing crisis. “On that level we could surely talk and understand each other, but “Before making new proposals, we are going to comply with what is already on the table.”he added during his speech at an information conference organized by the CEOE on the loans and guarantees to developers launched by the ICO for the construction of affordable housing.
Specifically, Rodríguez has urged the popular people to support the reform of the land lawwhose text received the approval of the Government in March, but was not voted on in Congress because, due to the lack of support, the Executive withdrew it at the last moment to avoid a parliamentary defeat. “It could already be in the BOE,” the minister said this Wednesday, who assured that it is an “impeccable” standard at a technical level and supported by “a broad political and social consensus.”
Likewise, Rodríguez has also disfigured the PP with his opposition to the housing law. A year after its approval, prices have not stopped rising throughout the country, even in Catalonia, which is the only community that has implemented the stressed areas and the consequent limitations on rent, a star measure of the norm approved in the last legislature. The popular ones flatly reject the rule and propose alternative measures such as a 100% deduction for owners who return homes to the rental market that have been unused during the last two years, as well as a 100% bonus on inheritance and gift tax to facilitate the transfer of resources to those under 35 years of age for the purchase of a home.
The minister recalled that the declaration of a stressed area, which the regional presidents of the PP reject, already allows bonuses to be applied to landlords. “Before inventing new bonuses, we are going to give answers to citizens. We could already be lowering rents by 5% in stressed areas and at the same time the owners benefit from a 90% bonus,” he reproached the popular leaders. “Why don’t we do it if it is the law, we are in a democratic State and it is good for everyone?” he added, urging those from Feijóo to “be faster” in adopting measures.
The ICO boost
“Meanwhile, From the ministry we will continue to get to workpromoting a public housing stock,” Rodríguez has defended, pointing especially to the 4,000 million euros mobilized by the ICO in the form of loans to public and private developers – and complemented by another 2,000 million euros in guarantees – with which the The Government aims to promote 43,000 homes through public-private collaboration. The minister has indicated that financing has already been requested for more than 20,000 homes.
At the information day organized by the employers’ association, the president of the Housing and Urban Planning Commission of the CEOE, Juan Antonio Gómez-Pintado, pointed out that with ICO credits could be used to build 50,000 propertiesthus improving the Government’s forecast, and generating 170,000 jobs. The president of the employer’s association, Antonio Garamendihas highlighted this line of financing and has asked for the collaboration of all the agents involved to tackle homelessness.
For his part, the president of ICO, Manuel Illueca, has stressed the entity’s commitment to expanding the offer. “In the last 35 years, the ICO has financed 30,000 homes. Now we already have more than 20,000 under study alone,” he expressed, highlighting the importance of the new line of financing for developers launched just two months ago. “We have three priorities: the first is housing, the second is housing and the third is housing”he has sentenced.
