PSOE and United We Can

have agreed to freeze rents in those areas where prices are higher, but the future Housing Law will have to wait, because

Ione Belarra's party

considers that the socialist proposal is "insufficient" to close the agreement definitive.

The Ministry of Transport (responsible for housing policy) put on the table a little over a month ago a proposal for a

mandatory extension of rents in stressed areas

. According to this proposal, as long as prices are very high in those areas, tenants will have the right to stay in their homes beyond the 5 or 7 years that the law now stipulates.

During how much time?

In principle, the concept of a stressed zone that is handled in the negotiations contemplates that they maintain their consideration for three years and that such consideration be established based on different parameters yet to be specified.

However, after several weeks with the measure on the table, Unidos Podemos had not spoken until now.

And his answer is that he accepts the measure, but it is "

insufficient

" because it freezes but does not reduce rents and, therefore, does not comply with the provisions of the Government and Budget agreements signed by both parties.

"It is a step towards regulation, but insufficient," point out sources from the formation led by Ione Belarra, and for that very reason, far from considering the agreement on the future housing law closed, they assure that they should continue negotiating with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda directed by José Luis Ábalos.

Delay

In case it can be illustrative of the progress of these negotiations,

the socialist party has learned from the media of

the acceptance by United We Can, after more than a month without knowing its position on the proposal that had been presented to it.

Despite this, socialist sources consider that it is one more step to advance in the definitive agreement of the norm and, in fact, they believe that a good part of the talks are unblocking.

Originally, the law should have been passed in February, but disagreement over the rent cap has been delaying it until now.

June was the new date set on the calendar, but more and more voices close to the negotiation believe that it could be extended until July and even after the summer.

In real estate, however, homeowners, companies and renters are increasingly expressing doubts that the rule will finally see the light of day sometime in the legislature.

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