Genoa secretly kept its housing plan as a treasure and this Tuesday it released it like a missile. The Popular Party seeks to overshadow the advances and announcements of the Executive by proposing a state pact for housing that unifies the efforts of the Administration at all levels. Alberto Núñez Feijóo asserted this Tuesday that if he comes to the Government, he will expand the youth rental bonus and increase the transfer of endowment land from municipalities and autonomies, where the rental price will drop by 40% so that young people and middle-income families can access a house.
The opposition leader, from the heights of a rooftop in the center of Madrid, urged the PSOE and the rest of the parties to design and activate a State Pact for Housing in response to the announcements made by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez on last weekend to activate up to 50,000 affordable public housing units. Faced with these “erratic, insufficient and inefficient” measures that corroborate that the Government “has been without housing policies for five years,” Feijóo outlined his program, which he defined as “serious and rigorous State policies.”
“I am not going to do demagogy. There are no easy solutions for complex problems,” reflected Feijóo, who advanced that he will also create a 1,000-euro aid for emancipation to “pay the objective expenses for buying or renting” a house. He also promised, as the PP already detailed this Monday, that he will guarantee 15% of the total price of the first home, as well as the deposit required for the start of a rental.
The objective, Feijóo remarked, is to reduce the economic pressure suffered by families and young people to pay the rent, which in many cases represents an expense of 70% of the monthly income, and thus have more facilities to access the purchase of a living place. According to the data handled by the PP, the rent is at historic highs in thirteen autonomies, at the same time that the age of emancipation in our country is close to 30 years, far behind that of the rest of the OECD countries.
In matters against squatting, Feijóo promised a greater hard hand from the State for those who carry out this illegal practice: “We will guarantee the eviction of illegal squats within 24 hours. We will toughen the penalties and provide more resources to courts and security forces to put the house at the disposal of the owner”. “If your income is vulnerable, we will help you,” Feijóo said about the squatters. “But you can’t do illegal acts without having any kind of repercussion.”
In the eyes of the opposition leader, the powerful announcement made by Sánchez this weekend regarding housing is a smokescreen with which to cover the absence of the socialist regional presidents in the intermunicipal meeting held in Valencia. “It doesn’t strain,” Feijóo settled.
– Expand the Youth Rental Bonus.
– Offer an emancipation aid of 1,000 euros for objective costs of access to housing.
– Grant the guarantee to cover the legal bail requested for young people with medium and low incomes.
– Increase the assignment of public administration land to build housing and assign it with an appraised rental price 40% lower than the market price.
– Guarantee of up to 15% of the total price of the house to complete the financing of the mortgage for young people’s houses.
– Guarantee the eviction of squatters within 24 hours.
– Modify the law to toughen the penalties and provide more resources to the Security Forces and Bodies and the Courts to restore the home to the owner.
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