The Housing Department of the Government of Navarra announced this Monday that the procedures will begin to declare 21 municipalities as stressed residential market areas, including Pamplona and Tudela and where 68.3% of the population lives. population of the regional community, where the price of rentals may be limited. It will be from January 2025 when the process will be launched with the opening of the public exhibition and the presentation of the Report.
Specifically, the 21 municipalities in which the process begins are Pamplona, Tudela, Egües, Burlada, Barañáin, Zizur Mayor, Estella-Lizarra, Aranguren, Berriozar, Tafalla, Ansoáin, Villava, Corella, Noáin, Cintruénigo, Baztan, Alsasua , Huarte, Berrioplano, San Adrián and Peralta. The 21 municipalities are home to 459,088 inhabitants with data from the latest official register as of January 1, 2023.
The Minister of Housing, Begoña Alfaro, has celebrated that this begins the implementation of a “necessary” measure to try to stop “the permanent escalation of housing prices that is leaving thousands of families out of the market” and has explained that it is not an administrative declaration, but rather an announcement of the beginning of the process in those localities that have detected that they meet one of the two requirements established in the regional housing law to declare an area as stressed. That is to say, that in that territorial area the average price of the mortgage or rent in the “personal or cohabitation unit budget, plus basic expenses and supplies” exceeds 30% of the average household income, or that The average rental price has increased in the last five years at least three percentage points more than the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of Navarra has increased.
As detailed by the counselor Begoña Alfaro, analyzing the statistics from the College of Registrars of Spain, the Navarre Institute of Statistics (NASTAT), the Navarra Foral Treasury and the Rental Registry of the Government of Navarra, it has been confirmed that in nine municipalities These two requirements are met, the price evolution requirement for both purchase and rental, in ten municipalities the requirement for rental price evolution is met, while in two the requirement for price evolution is met.
After announcing the 21 municipalities that want to be declared as stressed areas, the Housing Department will begin a “round” in January 2025 with the departments of María Chivite’s Executive and with the affected town councils to inform them of the steps that will be taken. . The administrative process will then begin with the relevant mandatory public presentation phase of two months where the allegations will be collected.
It will not be until the completion of this allegations process that the Navarrese Government will be able to begin to cap the price of rentals through a regional order. To this end, there will also be the collaboration of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda to agree on the maximum price in each area, which, as explained by Minister Alfaro, will vary depending on the area and the municipality.
In addition to limiting the price of rentals, the provincial housing law also states that in areas that are declared to have a stressed residential market, measures such as the rehabilitation of housing or the construction of protected housing will be promoted.
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