• Divarian: A fund does not renew rentals to families at risk of exclusion

There was a gap in the anti-eviction law of 2015 of the Generalitat , an unavoidable appointment for the affected platforms that promoted it. The rule provides that financial entities and real estate management companies must offer reduced leases to the low income of the inhabitants of the apartment before urging the eviction if they cannot afford to pay the mortgage or rent, but does not stipulate that they must renew a Once they win. The so-called social rents are expiring or about to do so, and the households that signed them for proving insufficient income often encounter that corporations that have become their landlords - often, investment funds to which banks have sold their real estate portfolio - they do not extend their stay.

The Generalitat has approved on Tuesday a decree that now establishes the obligation for banks, funds and subsidiaries to extend rents with quotas below market seven years, provided that social services guarantee that the family continues in the same need that led to they were granted affordable housing. If it is the first contract for people unable to pay a mortgage loan or a market rental, the duration of the agreement is extended from three years to five (in the case of private landlords with more than 15 properties) or seven years (in case of entities), adapting to the new provisions of the Urban Leasing Law .

Strengthening the requirement to extend rents, the Generalitat tries to stop a new wave of evictions, which has begun with eviction orders for families who had disposed of social rents. The groups defending the right to housing try to stop them, even reoccupying the homes of executing the expulsion.

In turn, the Government formalizes that the large owners must also grant an affordable rent for seven years to those who are squatting a home for more than six months when the decree enters into force and have a social report that corroborates that They suffer poverty. The decree is pending ratification in the Parliament , which is expected to occur in January. The JxCat and ERC bipartite has backups for it to be implanted.

The Barcelona City Council has applauded the measures, in which it has introduced contributions after opposing the draft that the Government wrote months ago. The Platform of People Affected by the Mortgage has also been congratulated for the changes, although it has lamented that it does not also protect the right to social rent to those who have squatted an address in need in recent months or do so from now on.

In turn, the Generalitat establishes sanctions and the possibility of expropriating unfinished buildings to incorporate them into the public housing park, which in Catalonia is below 2%, far from 15% to that which rises in other European countries. It also declares that protected housing built on public land will maintain the cataloging permanently, so that since the decree is applicable, it cannot be sold among individuals.

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