The Aragon Housing Plan will come to an end in 2025. From the parliamentary group of IU Aragon It is advocated to begin developing new housing measures, which must go through facilitate access to a “roof” at an affordable price.
On this general premise, the IU Aragón deputy, Álvaro Sanz, has presented a package of measures made up of nine proposals for debate in the plenary session this Thursday in the Cortes of Aragon in order for them to be taken into account in the preparation of the next housing plan of the community.
The measures involve having a public housing stock to increase the social rental pool, so that it can “serve as a regulator of a speculative market in which the state today has very little room for action.”
In parallel, it advocates mobilize existing housing in order to increase the offer with those that are empty and in condition to be used for what is proposed provide guarantees to small owners so that they are not afraid to rent, for example, with insurance provided by the Administration, although the price of the property would be appraised.
Other measures are based on rehabilitate the housing stock and include initiatives aimed at limit real estate speculation. Furthermore, it is committed to public investment being a social tool during the useful life of the investment, which is why the publicly owned rental housing new, exercising first trial and withdrawal, or the acquisition of the already built one. In this way, the VPO in property, although for IU it should not be a priority, must be linked to the public regime for life so as not to lose its public and social nature and prevent it from passing into the speculative market.
From the training, other actions are also pointed out such as the mobilization of unoccupied private housing with tax toolsjust as he imposed on new room models such as housing cooperatives under transfer of use that operate in other countries.
These measures would not only facilitate access to housing but also avoid failures in previous actions. As Sanz explained, “the Government has invested 160,000 million euros in subsidies that did not translate into the construction of public housing.”
Furthermore, he has pointed out that the soil deregulation nor the endowment lands to develop housing with the help of new private developers. The latter action has indicated that there are neighborhood movements that do not want this new use for these lands intended for parking or educational or health facilities.
“There are two ways of understanding housing, as a right, recognized in article 47 of our Constitution, or as a market good, which considers housing as a private good and, therefore, does not fall within the guarantee of the right to the ceiling,” says Álvaro Sanz, who has advocated stopping “subsidizing housing developers with measures that supposedly benefit people.”
These are measures that he considers necessary, given that salaries have increased by 17% while the cost of housing has increased by 56%. “It is a complex problem that will not be resolved in the short term. Combined measures are needed at the same time, budget and political will. A change of course is essential.”
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