MALAGA, 29 Nov. (PRESS EUROPE) –
The secretary general of the Andalusian PSOE, Juan Espadas, has asked the Andalusian government to implement “temporary and possible support measures” to deal with the increase in prices, including the promotion of affordable housing and mortgage help .
The socialist sees it “logical” that, at a time of rising prices and rising rents, the Junta de Andalucía includes its own items in its housing construction budgets, something it “doesn’t have”, and does so in collaboration with the town halls, he asked.
Furthermore, given the rise in interest rates affecting variable-rate mortgages, he proposed a deduction of up to 300 euros to the income statement for families with incomes of less than 40,000 euros; a “very specific provision, which would fall within the autonomous sections of the IRPEF and, therefore, could be carried out by the Council within the ambit of its competences”.
This was stated this Monday at a press conference in Malaga, where he met with residents and traders of the La Luz neighborhood, accompanied by the general secretary of the PSOE in Malaga, Daniel Pérez. Both have influenced these requests to ensure access to housing, “a crucial issue in Andalusia” and which “is made impossible” by rising rental prices or a lack of new developments.
In this sense, Espadas defended that the PSOE project is committed to housing “as a central element of its city model”, responding to the present and future needs of citizens with “a real offer” of affordable housing and the use of European funds for rehabilitation and improvement of their quality.
Faced with this, he regrets that the PP “always forgets about housing and especially about those who need housing the most. society which in many cases is preventing many young people from becoming independent or from living where they want, but only where they can pay”.
In this sense, he cited Malaga as an example, where “the rental price is skyrocketing”, which he attributed, among other things, to the growth of tourist construction “which ends up displacing residents and raising prices” , and it is here that it has chosen to intervene in the rental market following the model of the central government and to be able to limit the increase in prices with respect to the CPI.
“But the fundamental key, what really regulates the market is clearly to offer housing at an affordable price,” said Espadas, who said that this requires the “political will” of the city councils and the “essential collaboration” of the Council. Andalusia. This is why he asked for an agreement between the two to allocate more resources to the promotion of affordable housing.
Finally, he indicated that “there are economic resources and investment capacity” to start housing redevelopment projects, so that they are “of higher quality, more sustainable and efficient”, and opted to invest in renewable energies.
“CHAMBER DRAMATIC”
The general secretary of the PSOE in Malaga, Daniel Pérez, intervened along the same lines, asking for “urgent action” by the Junta de Andalucía and the City of Málaga to deal with the “housing drama” that the housing situation in the city.
“It is necessary that the Junta de Andalucía gets to work and that the budgets, which have not foreseen it, include specific items for public promotion and for the construction of houses,” said Pérez, who insisted that ” only by intervening on the market, making a greater number of social housing available, can the price of housing be lowered”.
The socialist spokesman of the Malaga City Council also explained that in neighborhoods such as La Luz “commercial premises are closing to become substandard housing, zulos that many of them do not even have a certificate of viability, they do not even have what is right breathing.”
“Here there is a housing problem that the City Council is unable to solve, which will present its budgets today and which will not contemplate this drama, nor the Junta de Andalucía, which has recently presented its budgets and is unable to allocate a specific element to one of the greatest social dramas that Andalusia has at the moment”, he assured. This is why I have launched an appeal “for them to get to work”.
He also recalled that the city of Malaga has a register of VPO housing seekers of more than 23,000 people and that three-bedroom houses in areas such as La Luz reach a thousand euros in rent, something “unbearable” for a family. “There is no response or recognition from the City Council or the Junta de Andalucía,” she lamented.
“The escalation of rental prices and purchase and sale prices cannot continue,” said Pérez, reproaching the mayor who “is dedicated to fixing some structures that do not meet the conditions for housing or making football pitches when what you don’t do is promote social housing so that rental and purchase prices fall”, he concluded.
