The city council is of the opinion that the entire city meets the state criteria that apply the application of measures to regulate the rental market.
The Bilbao city council has formally asked the Basque government to indicate The entire city as a home of tensionDue to the high economic effort that households have to make to pay at home. The consistory has taken this decision after analyzing a diagnosis that shows that the neighbors allocate on average more than 30% of their income to the payment of the rent or mortgage, together with the basic costs.
According to the Statten Act for the right to housing, that threshold is one of the requirements to explain an area as tension, allowing measures to stop the price increase and facilitate access to homes. Bilbao does not meet the second criterion, related to the evolution of prices with regard to CPI, but the first.
The current situation of the housing market in the Biscayan capital, according to the municipal diagnosis, shows the difficulties with which many families are confronted, mainly because of the high price of rent and the low availability of empty homes. According to the city council, this situation justifies the need to act urgently.
Once the application has been received, the Ministry of Urban Housing and Agenda of the Basque government must publish the assignment of the start of the procedure. A period of 20 days will be opened from the publication in the official Gazette of the Basque Country so that allegations are presented before a final decision is made.
Together with the application, the city council has drawn up an action plan that includes 40 measures, grouped in five strategic ashes, to correct the detected imbalances. Under the planned actions is the impulse of the affordable rent, the mobilization of empty homes and the rehabilitation of the residential park.
The plan, that It will develop between 2025 and 2028Also considered specific help for young people, protection of vulnerable groups and coordination mechanisms between institutions such as the Basque government, the provincial council of Bizkaia and entities such as Alokabide and ETXEBIDE.
Source: EITB
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