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MADRID

Updated Sunday, March 17, 2024-00:00

  • Rental Madrid, the great area of ​​tension: only five municipalities have housing prices below the limit of the law

The housing price index proposed by the Ministry, as happened with the stressed areas, will not be applied either in the Community or in the city of Madrid.

Yesterday, representatives of both the regional government and the capital's City Council criticized

the measure for considering it "ineffective" and "interventionist"

in the conferences on this matter promoted by the PP of Madrid.

"The more socialism, the fewer housing opportunities for citizens," said the general secretary of the Madrid Popular Party, who defended his model based on "an increase in available land," "reducing obstacles and bureaucracy," "increasing legal security and also tax incentives.

«

No one questions that there is a housing problem, the issue is what response is given by the administrations

.

There are those who govern against those who are affected and we try to do it hand in hand," he remarked at the closing of the conference.

The

number two

of the PP stressed that the capital has "the same housing problem" as the rest of "the great capitals of Spain" such as Barcelona, ​​Valencia or Seville.

According to Idealista data, of these four cities,

Madrid is the second in both price increases with 9.5% in the last year

(Valencia is the first with 12.8%) and in total price per square meter with 4,268 euros (the ranking is led by Barcelona with 4,310 euros per square meter).

The Minister of Housing, Jorge Rodrigo, also charged against the National Government, describing the publication of that price index that the BOE published yesterday as "one more measure of interventionism and inefficiency."

and that the Community of Madrid will not follow.

Both Serrano and the counselor agreed in pointing out

the Moncloa Palace as "the only tense area" in the capital because "Puigdemont charges rent there"

while "all Spaniards" pay "throughout."

"This Government puts the well-being of the housing coup plotters first," Rodrigo highlighted.

Criticism also came from the Madrid City Council, where the vice mayor, Inmaculada Sanz, insisted that a "political" confrontation of "two visions on housing matters" is currently taking place.

While the

popular party

"is based on the principles of property and freedom and is oriented towards families,"

the leftist parties, she indicated, "distrust freedom and see property as a privilege

. "

Hence, the solution she proposed is to "increase the supply" of real estate and opt for public-private "collaboration formulas" to build.

"Madridians, especially the youngest, are asking us for greater access and we must offer solutions," she concluded.