Change of minister but the same traffic jam as always.

The new head of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda,

Raquel Sánchez

, and her team have resumed the negotiations of the future Housing Law with a delegation from United We can led by the Minister of Social Rights,

Ione Belarra

, with the aim of advancing in the norm that already accumulates seven months of delay.

Both teams had been without contacts for weeks to address the rule after the government crisis that caused the departure of José Luis Ábalos in the old Development.

However, the two government partners are still stuck in the same points that have caused the law, which should have been approved at the end of February.

According to Transport sources, Minister Sánchez has insisted on the need to give impetus to the negotiations and

approve this law "as soon as possible"

to meet the demands of citizens, especially the most vulnerable.

The regulation is being one of the main points of friction and tension between the two government partners and its greatest source of tension is the rent limit.

Unidos Podemos demands that the PSOE include a direct intervention in the market, so that prices can be capped in those areas with higher incomes, but the Socialists refuse and bet on a system of tax credits that encourages owners to reduce prices.

General Budgets

And that's how they have been since the negotiations began almost a year ago.

The discrepancy is such that the Ministry of Finance believes that the lack of agreement on rents could prevent the agreement to carry out the

General Budgets for 2022,

as sources collected by Europa Press have assured.

The limitation of rents, in fact, was already on the verge of overthrowing the current Budgets in force, although finally the PSOE and UP agreed to approve the Housing Law in January and start its processing in Congress in February. The delay has accumulated since then.

In its latest proposal, the Ministry of Transport (then under the tutelage of Ábalos) 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.

But neither does that convince Podemos, since it considers that it is "a step towards regulation, but insufficient", because it freezes but does not reduce rents and, therefore, does not comply with the provisions of the Budget agreement signed by both parties.

The rest of aspects that generated discrepancies between both partners in relation to the future rule have been getting on track, among them, the definition of a large holder, the concept of empty housing and evictions.

With the executive vacation just around the corner, it is likely that the two ministries involved in the talks will not make significant progress until late summer.

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