The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni (PSC), introduced this Friday that the Metropolis Council won’t grant any extra licenses for vacationer use to residential houses and won’t renew the present ones in November 2028, in software of Catalan regulation, in order that in 5 years, the ten,101 vacationer residences within the metropolis will lose that standing.
Collboni has additionally introduced the municipal authorities’s proposal that the reserve for social residences of 30 p.c of recent promotions and main renovations of personal initiative residential buildings, in drive since 2018, could be transferred to close by plots and that social promoters can execute the brand new protected buildings, wherein the Metropolis Council would have preferential proper within the acquisition of the ensuing homes.
The mayor of Barcelona publicly introduced this Friday these two new initiatives to extend the housing inventory within the metropolis and cease the rise in rental and buy costs, actions included within the new Residing Planwhich is able to carry collectively the political actions of the federal government Collboni to advertise entry to housing within the metropolis of Barcelona within the face of the housing emergency it suffers.
Jaume Collboni has identified that in Barcelona within the final 10 years the rental value of housing has risen by 68 p.c and the sale value by 38 p.c and that it’s obligatory to extend the availability “in order that costs don’t rise a lot or begin to fall.” and folks should not have to depart town”, along with persevering with to use rental value regulation.
The choice is “that vacationer residence exercise utterly ceases in Barcelona”
The mayor has assured that for this the municipal authorities needs to “go deep” with the brand new Catalan regulation of the exercise of vacationer housing, which establishes that licenses expire after 5 years, which permits the present ones to not be renewed in November 2028 with none compensation.
The choice is “that in Barcelona utterly stop the exercise of vacationer residences and that on that date, these 10,000 residences go to the rental or sale market to be inhabited repeatedly by the residents of Barcelona“, the mayor introduced.
Collboni has confirmed that the measure of the 30 p.c reservation in new developments and huge rehabilitations as it’s proposed at present is just not efficient in selling inexpensive housing within the consolidated city cloth, since because it was utilized it has dropped by 90 p.c non-public funding in non-public housing building and huge renovations.
To make this public coverage work and encourage non-public funding in housing, Jaume Collboni considers that “new avenues should be opened to take this 30 p.c – from new developments or main rehabilitations – and switch it to different heaps within the adjoining neighborhood.” EFE
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