Housing PSOE and United We Can reach an agreement on the Budgets after unlocking the Housing Law
After almost 12 months of negotiations and eight months late, PSOE and United We Can have closed the agreement on Tuesday to light the first
Housing Law in Spain
. The Socialists have ended up giving in to the main claim of the
purple
formation
and will intervene the prices of the rents in the areas that are considered more stressed, both large and small owners.
With regard to
large landlords
, the agreement contemplates regulating prices to lower rents by law based on the reference index for all contracts in stressed market areas.
For
smallholders
, a price freeze will be required and tax incentives will be established to motivate reductions.
The project is still in the drafting phase and sources familiar with the negotiations point out that it is probable that the norm does not speak verbatim about large and small owners, but about
natural and legal persons
to apply one or another alternative.
We will still have to wait several weeks to know the literality, since the approval of the bill is scheduled for within several Councils of Ministers.
Then the parliamentary process of the text will start.
Intervene in prices
Asked about the measures to regulate rents and intervene in prices, the Minister of the Presidency,
Félix Bolaño
s, has limited himself to saying that "there are all kinds of measures and elements that will manage to contain and reduce the price of rents" and among them, he has advanced that the norm includes "a very powerful package of bonuses to encourage owners to lower prices."
The threshold between the large and the small fork will be marked by the number of properties.
For the first time, a single definition will be established to distinguish between one and the other and based on that,
those who own 10 or more properties
will be officially considered a
large owner.
For the large landowners, United Podemos also demanded the withdrawal of the "fiscal privileges", without any further details of what this entails for the moment being known.
In addition, the obligation to reserve 30% of all promotions for protected housing is established and of that amount, half will be used for social rent.
"State umbrella"
UP has also managed to carry out another of its demands and it is the one that has to do with
empty houses
. The team led by Ione Belarra has been pressing for some time to start some type of penalty on this type of property and in accordance with the points of the pact to which EL MUNDO has had access, the future Housing Law will contemplate a tax on empty housing to Through the IBI surcharge of up to 150% that may be applied by the municipalities.
This is precisely another of the keys to the proposal.
As Félix Bolaño explained in the press conference after the Council of Ministers, the last word when it comes to materializing a good part of the measures, including price intervention, will fall on the
autonomous communities and municipalities
, which are the ones that they hold most of the responsibilities for housing.
The Law will be articulated as a
"state umbrella",
according to Bolaños, so that the CCAA can implement other measures in the area of housing.
This concept could
give protection to the Income Intervention Law
that came into force a year ago in Catalonia and which is being appealed before the Constitutional Court for lack of legal framework.
Following this trail, it will be the regional governments that will have to
request the declaration of an area as a stressed area,
so that if that request is not made, it is unlikely that any type of limitation or regulation on prices will be applied.
And the same happens at
the municipal level
.
The future Housing Law will enable municipalities to apply a surcharge on the IBI for empty houses, which does not mean that they are obliged to do so.
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