The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Thursday that the Community of Madrid
will not bill water to owners who are victims of squatting
and will urge suppliers to study doing the same with electricity and gas.
This has been advanced in the Madrid Assembly, during the response to a question from the Popular Parliamentary Group, who has remarked that it also contemplates
"a temporary housing offer in case the affected person does not have a place to live
while their occupation process is resolved illegal".
"We are going to continue deploying a battery of measures to help the victims of the occupation, among them, not charging the legitimate owners for the cost of the water that the occupants have consumed and urging the
different gas and electricity suppliers to study how to alleviate
the bills of the employed", he underlined.
Likewise, he has declared that they are going "to study a temporary housing offer in case the victim does not have a place to reside while the crime exists."
"
The occupation, illegal trade and citizen insecurity
weigh down the economy, employment and tourism. We cannot afford it, because there is no one left over here, neither people with heritage nor tourists, nor people who create jobs ", has slipped below.
The Madrid president has stressed that they
are managing to "stop" illegal squatting
but has stressed that "there are 4,300 homes affected."
"The Government of the Community of Madrid is absolutely against the occupation because it is a crime and although we do not have the power to do so, we have set up the office against the occupation, with which we are trying to provide tools and advice to
local police and assistance to victims of crime
," he said.
The Parliamentary Group of Vox in the Madrid Assembly requested to suspend
the collection of receipts for the supplies of Canal de Isabel II
to all those owners of the aforementioned supplies whose farms are occupied and the procedure for recovering the farm.
On April 2, 2020, Royal Decree Law 11/2020 of March 31 (hereinafter, RDL) entered into force, which established the suspension of eviction procedures derived from lease contracts subject to the Urban Leasing Law, as well as as well as the
launches of those declared vulnerable
without a housing alternative.
Canal de Isabel II keeps water rates frozen in the region, which has a price 20% lower than the national average.
It also
offers bonuses to those users who prove they cannot afford
to pay for water -50% of the amount of the fixed service fee-.
In addition, users who prove that their habitual residence is inhabited by a large family or by more than four registered people have discounts.
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