Good news for the thousands of affected by the 18,000 plan in Madrid. The delegate of Urbanism, Environment and Mobility, Borja Carabante, has pledged to study the fractionation of the payment of the land and that The period of transmission of the surface right of fifteen to five years is reduced in the 18,000 planas Vox proposes, although he has not hidden the difficulties of the proposition because they cannot leave the document authorized by municipal legal services and intervention.
“There is the difficulty in responding to these requests, which we are going to study by technical services and the area with the greatest interest, but taking that difficulty into account“Carabante replied to VOX during the Permanent Urban Planning Commission on Plan 18,000, which receives its name from a program of the capital of the capital launched in the 90s to build protected homes in public land, so that citizens only acquired a surface right for a few years, not the full property.
“We gave a solution, the conditions are established in the specifications and we have a difficulty in modifying these requests but, with the best intentions, It will be analyzed by the government team“The delegate said.
Vox spokesman in the commission, Ignacio Ansaldo, has put on the table concrete measures to facilitate the acquisition of surface right To Madrid’s 18,000 housing plan, with the accent placed on “those that due to their advanced age cannot access bank financing”, measures that could go through the fractionation of the payment of the land.
Failure of payment of the land, especially for the oldest people and taking into account those who do not have financial resources to assume the payment of only time are the proposals that Ansaldo has put on the table. The mayor has clarified that The City Council is not asked to become a bank but it could facilitate the subdivision to pay the land in several years.
What Vox has demanded is that the government of José Luis Martínez-Almeida Dé “A viable and fair solution” and “to reduce the period of transmission of the surface right of fifteen to five years.” This fifteen -year limitation to sell the house “prevents many people for sale”, which together with “the massive purchase requests with these conditions confirm the desire that nobody wants to speculate.”
“The Guinda of the Plan 18,000”
What the councilor has raised are “exceptions for owners who demonstrate the need to sell their homes for medical, health or permanent care in a residence, even for reasons of death, divorce or for labor transfer.” “From Vox we would annul this limitation because the average age of those affected is already quite high but the neighbors would even be reducing to five years,” he explained in the commission.
The previous mandate, also with José Luis Martínez-Almeida as mayor but in government tandem with CS, ended with an ordinary last plenary session in April 2023 in which unanimously of the corporation an exit to the 18,000 plan was outlined, so that the holders of the same were excluded from the prohibition of the disposition of homes, as indicated by the pacts of the town, born during the pandemic.
Almost two years later, Vox has brought the situation of the 18,000 plan to a commissiondescribed as “pioneer and brilliant and that should be repeated on a large scale, even at the national level, to alleviate the problem of housing with the release of public land for the construction of private, protected and public housing, but always learning from the mistakes of the past so as not to commit them again.”
The two VOX requests – the payment of payment and reduce from fifteen to five the period of transmission of the surface right – would be “the cake of the 18,000 plan and the definitive closure of this problem for thousands of Madrid because there are dozens of people who live your particular drama and you (a carabante) can solve it,” Ansaldo has urged.
The delegate recalled that when he put himself in charge of Urbanismo inherited a situation for which for many years there was no viable solution until there was an alternative, with the protection for fifteen years of the sale of the surface right giving “three alternatives, which could be purchased in free, which can be purchased in protected with the limitation of the fifteen years and that can be purchased in protected and that once paying its price, such protection could be released.”
It was a solution “that more or less gave satisfaction to all”including opposition parties. That solution materialized in a specifications, with green light of legal services and by intervention, which “cannot be left.” “We are going to study it but I do not want to deceive anyone because we have a sheet with established conditions and are difficult, if not unfeasible,” the delegate warned.
What is the 18,000 plan?
The 18,000 Plan was part of an initiative that the Madrid City Council carried out between 1984 and 1997 to try to solve the great real estate demand that existed at that time. The Consistory yielded numerous plots of the municipal heritage of the land (PMS) For a period of 75 years for the construction of official housing in the cooperative regime through what is called surface rights.
That is, the awardee (surface) could have their homes built on a land assigned by the City Council for free. With this formula The final amount of the house was reduced considerably for buyers since they did not pay the part corresponding to the land. In short, they owned the house but not from the ground. This is a problem that affects 6,500 families in Madrid.
First in 1992 and then in 2009the City Council offered the winners the possibility of buying the proportional part of the land that corresponded to them in the horizontal division. The Pliego of Economic-Administrative Conditions of November 24, 2009, which ruled direct and burdensome alienation, was extended until December 31, 2012.
Already in May 2013with Ana Botella in the Mayor’s Office, a new general sheet of pacts and economic-administrative conditions was approved, which was in force until January 30, 2018, with Manuela Carmena in front, government team that did not extend the folds.
The last townpiece
In order to “protect the municipal land and avoid speculation”, the City Council published in January 2024 a new sheet “where the price is reduced up to 90% for those interested in their purchase.” In it two routes were established so that all interested parties acquire the land in which their homes are.
First, if the PURCHASE OF THE SOIL IN PROTECTED REGIMEthe City Council established that the price to be paid for it will be set based on the maximum prices for the sale of protected housing that marks the Law of the Community of Madrid. This option was rigged The obligation of Not being able to transmit the house and its annexes at a price higher than the one set for the VPO for a period of 15 years from the acquisition of the soil. In summary, the house will be subject to the same limitations as those of official protection during this time and will have its sale and rental price.
As explained by the City Council of José Luis Martínez-Almeida, with this option, “The price of land is reduced to 90%”. The Consistory presented the following example: if in January 2023 a surface could acquire the lands share of his home in Hortaleza for 150,527 euros, that same land with the new contract could be bought from the Madrid City Council for 17,295 euros. Or in Moratalaz, a soil quota that a year ago was set at 140,352 euros, today it would have been reduced to 22,709 euros.
Second, for people who did not accept this first option, the Consistory allowed them Buy the floor at market price so that they can sell the house freely without the limitations of the VPO.
Finally, in the event that they did not want to accept either of the two previous roads, the City Council recalled that they will not have to perform any action and They can continue in their homes until the 75 years of the surface right that set the Scriptures are fulfilled. From then on, the Consistory will become the owner of everything that has built in these lands and there will be no compensation.
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