The PSOE has accused the PP of creating a housing policy that “serves the speculators” and points out that the measures they propose are a “farce” and a “misconception” because for them housing is “a business and a speculative good ”.
Housing has been the focus of this Sunday’s political interventions by the PP and the PSOE.
He People’s Party held during the weekend a meeting in Asturias under the motto “Politics that serve” and in the conclusion, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo referred to the issue of housing with several announcements, after which he again attacked Pedro Sánchez, whom he compared to Maduro.
As the most important measure, it announced that the autonomous communities would fall under the PP They reduce the transfer tax (ITP) from 10% to 4% for ‘young people under 40’ for the acquisition of habitual residence. Each autonomy will determine the maximum limits of the house price or income to apply this measure of extending the guarantees up to 40 years.
This proposal is part of a decalogue of the housing policy that they presented today as the ‘Declaration of Asturias’ in which the PP is pushing for a new constitution, repealing the housing law of the government of Pedro Sánchez, which they consider ‘interventionist’, and for a policy of tax cuts, more land available for construction and incentives for renting housing, among more others.
The document signed by the PP’s territorial leaders also includes a reduction, the amount of which is not specified, on the transfer tax on government-protected housing.
The agreed measures include tax cuts, simplification of bureaucracy, mobilization of public land, promotion of social housing construction or guaranteeing the availability of affordable rental housing at “30% below market price”. The PP also states that its communities will offer non-payment of rent and multi-risk insurance, as well as home modification assistance, for owners who offer vacant houses for rent.
PSOE says PP measures “are a farce”
In turn, the PSOE has accused the PP of pursuing a housing policy that “serves speculators” and points out that the measures they propose are a “farce” and a “misconception” because for them housing is “a business and a speculative matter is”. Good.” They have accused the PP of doing nothing in favor of access to housing in the communities it governs: “Movement is demonstrated by walking. Well, those who have the competition show everything but movement. Everything else is a misconception,” Enma López, the PSOE’s Minister of Economic Policy, said at an event in Alcorcón.
López has stated that “They are – for the PP – aimed at speculators, at the big ball, at lowering taxes for the rich and at being late with many measures.. First, they should assess how they think about their housing paradigm. For them, housing is a business, a speculative asset. “They refuse to apply the housing law and they also refuse to protect and foreclose protected housing,” he said, recalling that, for example, in Catalonia, where the housing law has been applied, the price has fallen by 5%.
The Socialist spokesperson recalled that housing is a competence of the autonomous communities and recalled that “there are regions where the PP has ruled for more than thirty years,” adding that they are not “setting a good example.”
In this sense, he has listed the promises made by some popular leaders, such as Ayuso who in 2019 “promised 25,000 houses” and only delivered 1,000, or Mazón who promised 6,000 houses in the Valencian Community. “We are still waiting exactly the same as with Capellán in La Rioja or Azcón in Aragón,” he said, before recalling that Feijóo in Galicia “gave up 470 million euros for housing.”
López has highlighted that house prices in Madrid have risen by 10% has asked that the Ayuso model be ‘contaminated’ to the rest of the communities: “Don’t be infected by Ayuso. Don’t be fooled because her policies don’t work. Ms. Ayuso is patient zero of these technocracies that are coming, where all these big CEOs of very big companies want is to end democracy while reaping extraordinary benefits,” he stated.
For his part, the Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management Oscar Puentebelieves that the housing plan presented this weekend by the PP represents a return “to the urbanizable area of Aznar” and to a real estate bubble like the one that “destroyed Spain” between 2008 and 2015. say: “Back to speculation that cost us our demise from 2008 to 2015 and the bankruptcy of the savings banks and the bailout of the banks that we all paid for out of our own pockets,” said Puente. in your X social network account.
Source: EITB
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