Tenants now ask to measure "speculative behavior" to talk about small or large owner

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"Unconstitutional", "inefficient", "discriminatory"

... are some of the adjectives that were heard yesterday in the Congress of Deputies in a key session for the future Housing Law in which experts from different institutions and specialties submitted the standard under review.

Even the

, one of the groups that has most pressured United We Can to obtain the intervention of rents, assured that the limitation of rents, "as it is proposed, will not be effective."

His spokesman,

, was especially critical of this part of the law.

"We know it's a starting point, but it's not going to work," he said.

However, one of the most striking parts of his speech had to do precisely with that definition of large owners that forms the backbone of the bill approved by the Council of Ministers.

United We Can defended establishing a minimum of 10 owned properties to speak of a large owner and, on the contrary, anyone who does not reach that figure is considered a small owner.

The norm collects it like this, but yesterday the Tenants' Union showed its disagreement: "You must not discriminate based on the number of homes but because of their behavior. There are individuals who have five homes and

", raised Martínez Galíndez during his participation in the Committee on Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda that was hosted yesterday by the Lower House.

He was not the only one to criticize the discriminatory meaning of the text towards the great landlords.

professor at Pompeu Fabra University, went even further.

"The other great barbarity of this bill, the great mistake, is the issue of the large forks. If we want a modern rental market we must go to large companies, professional and reputable rentals, and right here we are doing it the other way around It

, "he assured.

Arruñada was one of the harshest with the content of the text and surprised many by proposing that the economic weight of the measures fall on the State and not on the private sector.

This law is ambitious because it expands rights such as housing. That is very good, they are needs that must be resolved,

it, what is not worth is destroy the market by satisfying public needs and destroying private law," he snapped.

Limitation of rentals

Regarding rent control, he warned of its possible consequences: "it transfers wealth from owners to tenants, introduces legal uncertainty, discourages future rent, raises the price and selects the best tenants, so they are harmed, discriminates against tenants worse," he said.

Along these lines,

professor of Civil Law and first director of the UNESCO Housing Chair, also highlighted the "

" of the text, in the same sense as the report presented a few months ago by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

Nasarre highlighted "the unconstitutionality of the text due to the invasion of the exclusive powers of the autonomous communities and for

in the case of housing and its significant limitation of the powers of use, enjoyment and disposal of the owners" .

Also forceful was the participation of

, director of the environment, consumer and user services of

, who asked the Government to "use their records for leases and enable the effectiveness of the rule".

Perteguer claimed the role of the registrars to prepare the Rental Price Index on which the entire income limitation mechanism proposed by the Ministry of Transport is based.

The index was born already obsolete because the latest available data refer to past years, so there is a

, which is why the representative of the registrars demanded collaboration yesterday in May to prepare it with statistics closer in time.

"We live in a society in which data from three months ago is not worth us and the price index must be effective," she explained.

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