The Law for the right to housing It celebrates its second birthday without achieving the objective for which it was approved: guarantee the right of citizens to a decent house. A very ambitious and still very distant goal. However, the first green outbreaks generated by a Increased public housing construction at an affordable price and one Rental descent In some cities declared as tensioning areas They requested to run the price of income, including Barcelona.
After two years of its entry into force, the Housing Law faces an reinforced concrete wall difficult to derive: the little house offer in the market that triggers prices and more expensive rents. He precio of the used housing closed April with a 12% rise interannual, thus marking a new historical record by placing the square meter at 2,350 eurosaccording to idealist data, while the rent The same month traced a 10% Regarding the previous year until they were paid to 14,3 euros The square meter. Increases that make many citizens impossible access to decent housing.
To stop the climbing of income, the Housing Law enables Topar the rental price in areas with a tension residential market. To do this, the autonomous communities have to request the declaration of tensioning areas and most have not done so. The first one who did it and that has experienced the benefits of this measure has been Cataluña. According to the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguezlos rental prices in Barcelona he fallen to a 6%contrary to what happens in MadridRodríguez explained, where “it is decided that you do not have to regulate and each one puts the price that considers that there are instruments to lower it by benefiting both the tenant and the owner.”
In addition to running the rental price to stop its increase, the government has proposed to boost the Public housing park at affordable price through a New public company Housing and Loss For the industrialization of housing, approved in the Council of Ministers on Tuesday.
The new public housing company will be nourished by the transfer of property or the management of thousands of real estate from several state societies towards the Public Business Public Entity (SEPES). With this initiative, the Executive intends to act more actively in the real estate market, participating directly in the Promotion, construction, management and marketing of public housing to increase the offer at more affordable prices. To do this, the Housing Minister has announced that in the “next weeks” there will be a Tender of 1,600 homes of the public company.
“Focusing efforts on the need for more public housing is key, since it is really the problem of price increases,” he acknowledges María MatosDirector of Studies and spokesman for Fotocasa. In his opinion, build more Protected Housing It would be one of the measures that would help to clean up the park, since currently Spain has less than 3.5% social housing. Matos acknowledges that “increasing this offer would significantly contribute to balance the market and facilitate access to a house to the most vulnerable groups.”
Another of the assets that the Government has to solve the housing problem is the Strategic Project for Housing Economic Recovery and Transformation For industrialized construction. It is endowed with 1.3 billion euros of public investment and the Executive estimates that it will boost the production of 15,000 industrialized homes per year In the next decade, a figure that they consider “prudent, but ambitious.”
This investment for industrialized housing construction seeks to promote affordable housingin addition to increasing the construction of industrialized housing and labor. The belong is part of the 12 measures announced by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to improve accessibility to housing in Spain with which he also intends to increase the housing supply, reduce costsmake the sector more sustainable and more efficient, as well as guarantee security of construction workers.
All these initiatives are aimed at increasing the public housing park to end the low offer that is now in Spain. “The offer of homes for sale continues to be reduced and neither the low new work that is built nor the product that comes from the almost non -existent rental market are capable of containing A demand that does not stop growing”, He warns Francisco IñretaIdealist spokesman. Recognize that The appetite for buying housing is still high Due to the expectation that prices do not stop raising high rentals motivated by the shortage of offer.
To alleviate this problem, it considers that, “urgently” legisle and the promotion of new homessince “we have an important housing deficit that is aggravating quarter to trimester and only the creation of offer can end the escalation of prices.”
