The TC admits to handling the appeal of the Jeltzale wing of the Basque government against the housing law

The plenary session of the Constitutional Court (TC) has decided to hear the unconstitutionality appeal of the Jeltzale wing of the Basque government against several articles of law 12/2023 of May 24, “for violation of powers”. He source It was presented without the consent of the three socialist councilors of the Basque government. In particular, the Socialist Minister of Housing, Iñaki Arriolapointed out that the State Housing Law “does not impose” but rather “facilitates” the autonomy to take action in this matter.

This was announced on Tuesday by the Court of Guarantees, to which the Euskadi government went when it considered that this law could conflict with the scope of powers reserved to the autonomous communities in the field of housing, in in particular the powers guaranteed by the Statute of Autonomy. of the Basque Country.

The Housing Act – as explained by the Constitutional Court in a memorandum – is the subject of eight appeals against unconstitutionality submitted, among others, by fifty PP deputies in Congress, by the Parliament of Catalonia and by the government councils of the communities of Andalusia, the Balearic Islands and Madrid, which have already been accepted for processing.

The TC recalls that the unconstitutional appeals of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Xunta de Galicia are awaiting admission.

The disputed rule imposes new ones restrictions on the increase in rental prices throughout Spainallows to reduce the figure of great homeowner from ten to five properties in certain cases and prevents these landlords from evicting vulnerable tenantss without prior conciliation or arbitration act.