According to the advisor, it represents “an important step that allows progress in the right to housing for citizens and is in line with the housing law that we have in the Basque Country since 2015.”
Housing Minister Iñaki Arriola has reviewed the agreement for the future State law for the right to housing that will allow Euskadi to make decisions such as the declaration of “stressed areas”, the ones where the rent could be limited because it has increased a lot.
In some statements by the Basque government, the socialist adviser has appreciated the agreement on the future Housing Act that the central executive has agreed to ERC and EH Bildu.
According to him, it represents “an important step that allows progress in the right to housing for citizens and is in line with the housing law that we have in the Basque Country since 2015.”
Arriola has defended that this is Basque housing law “more advanced” in some ways than future state law. For example, the Basque Country already has the permanent classification of subsidized housing provided for in the new regulation, and the land reserve for officially protected housing (VPO) in urban land in the Basque law is greater than the provisions laid down in the future state.
But the new law also brings with it newssince it establishes that it will be the autonomys themselves that will be responsible for establishing on their territory the areas of the housing market that are “stressed”, that is, in which rents have risen sharply in recent years, and allows to define in it a price limit.
Arriola explained that with this “switch” to Euskadi to regulate these stressed areas, and now the Basque government will speak with the municipal councils to analyze the situation and, if necessary, take measures in this regard.
Taxes
The consultant also raised that they will be speaking with councils to move forward on housing taxation, another chapter that is also considering future state law.
The adviser recalled that the councils (which are the competent ones) have a proposal from the Basque government on the table to give tax breaks to owners who lower the rent of their houses, but the regional institutions have not yet decided.
Source: EITB
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