The Government will also act to try to stop evictions for non-payment of rent after an agreement between the first vice president of the Government, Carmen Calvo, and the second, Pablo Iglesias, reached in recent days.

The Executive will approve a royal decree today with measures to respond to evictions for foreclosure , which will establish a four-year moratorium. In the words of Iglesias, the agreement includes introducing in the reform of the Law on Urban Leases (LAU), which is already underway, the prohibition of evictions for non-payment of rent "in areas of stressed market and in cases related to funds Vultures that do business with a basic right ».

Although the entire parliamentary process remains ahead, companies related to this activity warned yesterday that the measures announced by the Government will have a negative impact on the market they intend to intervene.

«If someone does not pay me the rent, I have to kick him out and, if the Government does not want me to pay him, the government will pay me the rent, but you cannot say that with my private good I have to keep someone who does not pay. He is insane, ”the CEO of Colliers International real estate consultant Mikel Echavarren told Efe.

For his part, the CEO of Rental Insurance, Antonio Carroza , said that if evictions are limited per se, it will prevent people from putting homes for rent and there will be contractions in supply and prices will increase. Carroza said that he "totally agrees" that evictions are fought, but believes that to address this scourge "one must go against the disease and not against the symptom." «Evictions occur because people cannot continue paying rent for employment. Limiting evictions to avoid default is like trying to lower the fever by bleeding. According to Carroza, this situation may cause a market in which no one can access a home, because "nobody will want to put their home for rent." If one goes against the "few big property owners", what will be achieved is that "the investors leave Spain and there are contractions of the offer, so problems can occur again."

Among companies linked to the sector, there are also those who believe that the announcement of the Government is common sense, if it is about protecting the most vulnerable sectors: «protecting the most vulnerable sectors not only had to take into account to the mortgaged ones, also to the tenants ”, explained the director of Estudios.com floors, Ferran Font . In his opinion, once the crisis is over, citizens who live on rent and who are experiencing economic problems continue to increase.

Vice President Calvo explained that the agreement is "reasonable" because it combines the "political concern of the entire Government with an adequate political response" and that it was not initially included in the programmatic pact between the two parties that make up the Coalition Executive.

The Government confirmed that it is an extension of its initial pact that wants to "put a stop to another scourge that our country is suffering: evictions for non-payment of rent . " From the Executive yesterday they officially stressed that Calvo and Iglesias "have worked hand in hand", a note that evidences the attempt to leave behind the political crisis between both members of the coalition.

Iglesias said that on February 21 he met with the Platform of People Affected by the Mortgage and the movement for the right to housing. Since that meeting with the PAH , an organization with which Podemos has a special bond, the Executive has adopted all these measures. Iglesias thanks both this group and the Tenant Union for their struggle during these years and that "they were demanding, even tough, with us," a speech that resembles the employee with the farmers a few weeks ago.

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