Kolau is demanding a fine of 90,000 euros for landlords who do not comply with the housing law.

Barcelona Mayor Ada Collau addressed Congress this afternoon United We can register more than 30 parliamentary group amendments to the housing bill, including one that imposes fines. Up to 90,000 euros for landlords who do not meet the rent price limit.

Colau, who personally addressed the promise made to him by Barcelona Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that he would pass a law that would effectively regulate rents, assured that the current wording of the law was “ineffective” and that “to approve it would not change the reality of the housing market.”

Together with Barcelona City Council housing councilor Lucia Martin and En Comú MP Gerardo Pizzarello, Colum explained in the courtyard of the Congress the four “minimum” aspects that he believes the law should contain in such a way that Pedro Sanchez fulfills his word.

Thus, in order for the lease to be “effective”, it requires the abolition of the eighteen-month period provided for in the bill before it enters into force, and that it could be extended to all owners, not just law firms. Ten houses, since then only 30% of owners will have regulated prices, according to their data.

He also noted that “in order to highlight the highlighted areas, the reference to an increase in CPI must be in line with the existing context.” This means defining a stressful area as one where the price of buying or renting a home has experienced, over the past five years, an accumulated increase of more than two points more than the accumulated increase in gross domestic product (GDP). Autonomous community, instead of five points as it is written in the bill.

Another aspect that Colau considers essential is that the law guarantees socially vulnerable families who are evicted through compulsory “mediation” and obliges large landlords – banks and foundations – to offer social rent, as required by Catalan law. .

The third aspect is that the law obliges the government to allocate at least 1% of GDP in the 2023 general state budget to make affordable housing affordable and to revise this percentage in 2024.

Finally, he proposed tax reform to “help entrepreneurs who want to do it right and offer protected rent and rehabilitation, and to help cooperatives and the third sector and not vulture foundations.” This is also reflected in its changes, from a reduction of 21% to 10% in VAT on the transfer of land with a superficial right to rent and produce public housing for private entities, and up to 4% in the case of housing ownership. And a reduction in the corporate tax base from 40% to 85% for companies operating in the public housing rental market under certain conditions.

After stressing that Barcelona City Council intends to make “maximum efforts” to make the state housing law “really effective”, the mayor noted a “freeze” recently introduced by the government on a 2% rent increase. Due to high inflation, however, he stressed that Spain “needs a law that regulates that this is final and that there is no abusive growth.”

Among the changes to the En Comú Podem that Kolau says “fit” the United We Can amendments are that autonomous communities can apply a sanctions regime with fines ranging from 9001 to 90000 euros for serious violations and 6001 to 6001. 9000 Euros for petty crime.

Among the serious ones is the imposition of a rent in excess of more than 20%, which is in line with the Housing Regulations, and hiding from the tenant that the house is subject to a rent withholding regime is considered. Slight breach to determine income not exceeding 20% ​​of the relevant maximum amount.

In order to make housing right effective in Spain, it also proposes that in all municipalities with at least 5,000 inhabitants, at least 20% of the total housing be allocated to social policy, for a maximum of twenty years. Created a “specific state economic fund for urban solidarity” and the state will also contribute with its land and housing.

Other changes include tourist rental regulation and stipulate that the seller of the house is the one who takes over the cost of the real estate or intermediary company.