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The absolute blockade in which the negotiation of the Housing Law finds itself has led United We Can to move its positions in the last few hours to try to reach an agreement with the PSOE.

The purple group has reduced its three major demands to one, which is that small property owners are obliged to limit rental prices in areas where the market is stressed.

This would break the norm.

Right now the Government's bill imposes this price regulation only on "large owners", which it defines as natural or legal persons who own more than ten urban properties for residential use.

The demand of United We Can is to extend this limitation on rents to all owners, both large and “small”.

There is going to be the key to untangling a law that came out of the

in February with the consensus of the PSOE and United We Can, but that over the months and the scourge of the economic crisis has ended up being trapped in an alley No Exit.

On the one hand, for the purples it does not respond to the housing problem and, on the other, because the parliamentary partners of the Government, especially

and

, are reluctant to vote for it because they see it as very insufficient.

And all this means that one of the Government's star laws is dusting in a drawer in Congress -where it is being processed-, because it does not have the votes to be approved.

United We Can has taken advantage of the negotiation of the 2023 Budgets to pressure the PSOE to reopen the law and include aspects that were left out of the pact at the time.

However, his claim is hitting a wall.

Well, the majority partner of the Executive clings precisely to that agreement to refuse in band to accept any change.

Especially, as socialist sources underline, when it is a project presented by a ministry of your color.

The problem for the PSOE is that without addressing changes, the Housing Law is heading towards a very uncertain future, since it lacks a parliamentary majority to be approved.

ERC and EH Bildu turn their backs on her and on the right, PP or Ciudadanos also drop their support.

This lack of support and the crisis led United We Can to request the reopening of the law.

They presented the partner with three demands.

The already mentioned price regulation and two others: including Sareb homes in the public rental pool and prohibiting evictions without a housing alternative.

These two demands have now been parked in a movement to bring positions closer together.

The effort is concentrated on prices.

The Minister of Social Rights,

, who has been involved in the first person in all the steps that the law has been taking, has been talking for months with ERC and EH Bildu to bring positions closer together and agree on a common strategy.

For this reason, one of the arguments that the purples are wielding before the PSOE is that they are practically negotiating on behalf of the investiture bloc and the housing groups.

Thus, it is presented to him that the regulation of prices would automatically “enter” the members and would finally give him a majority in Congress.

Last Tuesday there was a meeting between Belarra and the second vice president,

, to coordinate with respect to the law.

The idea is that if there is a final meeting between Pedro Sánchez and the second vice president to close the Budgets, this issue will be on the table as a major issue.

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