MADRID, 25 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Unidos Podemos, Esquerra, EH-Bildu, Más País, Junts, Compromís, Nueva Canaria, CUP and BNG have signed the manifesto proposed by different groups for the right to housing, among which are the tenant union or the Platform of Affected by the Mortgage (PAH), to request that the Housing Law guarantee access to “decent and adequate” housing and regulate the price of rents.
In the manifesto, it is warned that “the new Housing Law will be dead paper if the right is not protected and effectively guaranteed throughout the territory.” “We must not miss the opportunity provided by the drafting of the first state law on the matter to achieve a historic advance in the coverage of this fundamental right,” they add.
After the signing, one of the spokespersons for the Catalan tenants union, Carme Arcarazo, pointed out that the PSOE “has dynamited the agreement with Podemos and with other groups.” “The question is what has happened since they signed the last agreement, what pressure do they receive? The conflict is not only with Podemos, but with millions of families who live for rent,” he added.
For his part, the spokesman for the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, Paco Morote, has announced that a mobilization process is going to begin in the different territories of Spain and that he hopes that the political groups are put in place so that the Law collect and guarantee the right of citizens to a home.
Morote has highlighted that the parliamentary groups that have signed today grant the PSOE a parliamentary majority to approve a housing law that includes the demands of the manifesto.
“Now, it is in the hands of the PSOE to define whether this law will guarantee housing for everyone or whether it will continue to respond to economic interests,” the tenants union said in a subsequent statement.
In the manifesto, the 72 groups that have joined this initiative denounce that the Housing Law that is intended to be approved is “totally decaffeinated” and that “it does not protect this human right that is systematically violated in the Spanish state.”
In fact, they believe that “this attitude clearly reflects how the PSOE is yielding to the pressures of the real estate lobby and vulture funds, and denotes not only a totally antisocial positioning in the management of the problem of access to housing, but also a lack of ethics and elegance in the way of approaching the negotiation processes with social organizations and the rest of the parliamentary forces “.
In addition to guaranteeing access to “decent, affordable, accessible and adequate” housing and regulating rental prices, the manifesto urges to stop the evictions of vulnerable people without a housing alternative, to ensure and expand the public rental stock social and guarantee the basic supplies of water, electricity, gas and access to telecommunications.
They also advocate guaranteeing an effective second chance for households with mortgage debt, expanding the budget for social housing and social housing policies, and ensuring active participation of the population in all housing and urban planning policies.
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