/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/larazon/XWCQBW3B6RDFJPOT5D4BIB3HWA.jpg "The Government studies ways to avoid a wave of 79,000 evictions")
On August 9, the moratorium approved by the Government to protect the most vulnerable groups with no alternative housing from evictions expires. And, if no alternative protective mechanism is articulated, 79,000 families are at risk of being on the street, according to calculations by the Platform for People Affected by Mortgage (PAH). So that this does not happen, the Executive «is analyzing what alternatives can be adopted from that moment», Explain sources from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma), who They did not confirm if the moratorium is going to be extended or if a royal decree is going to be chosen. that permanently protect these groups.
This formula, that of a definitive armor from August 9, was that the former Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, José Luis Ábalos, had the portfolio. As announced in the Congress of Deputies on June 23, what Mitma was going to do instead of approving another extension was to adopt a durable measure that would establish the conditions to protect the most vulnerable in this matter. For this, its intention was to break down in a new decree the content of the Housing Law referring to the protection against evictions of vulnerable groups without a housing alternative until this norm is definitively approved. In this way, the Mitma could provide structural protection to these families without having to wait for the approval of the Housing Law, whose negotiation is still stuck due to the differences between the Socialist Party and Podemos regarding the intervention of rent prices.
However, from Transport, when questioned about the possibility of a new extension, they left the doors open with a brief “alternatives are being studied.”
We can pressure
Since Podemos are in favor of extending the current protection measures until the end of the year. The Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, on Wednesday was in favor of expanding until then the so-called “social shield” of protection to vulnerable families, which prohibits evictions and cuts of supplies.
Speaking on the TVE program «Las cosas clear», Belarra opted for redoubling efforts to reach everyone in social need. “The royal decree of the Government prohibited a large part of evictions in Spain, it was very ambitious, but not all judges are making the interpretation that we wanted to be made when we approved the decree,” he lamented. For the Minister of Social Rights, “People still need the social shield because they are having a very bad time”, for which he proposed the extension of the protection until the end of the year. “The situation of economic and social crisis continues to persist and it is very important that at the same time we move forward with the Housing Law that prohibits evictions without a housing alternative” and that the autonomous communities offer these vulnerable families a social rent, he said.
Belarra acknowledged that she is aware that We can “have a limited weight” within the Government and he added that if the housing competition were in his charge, “we would have had a Housing Law a long time ago.”
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