The Popular Party proposes to tighten the income conditions which influence the suspension of evictions. Those of Núñez Feijóo propose to reduce the ceiling for considering an economically vulnerable person, from 1,800 euros currently, to 1,080 euros. In this way, a tenant who has not been able to make their payments can be immediately released, provided that they have an account with income above this limit. “The Housing Law sets very high limits,” said the head of the popular branch, Paloma Martín, when presenting the outline of the bill that the PP plans to present to the Congress of Deputies in the coming weeks . Génova considers that the requirement of vulnerability goes against young people’s access to rental. According to Martín, landlords ask for rent criteria of “up to 2,000 euros” to sign a contract.
This is not the only measure integrated into the text with which Feijóo intends to replace the standard approved in 2023 by the Executive. As announced yesterday elEconomista.esthe popular initiative deploys a battery of measures to fight against squat. “In Spain there are 80,000 squatted homes and this is not a minor date,” said Paloma Martín. To avoid this, the PP is resuming its proposal for express evictions, to forcibly evict the “squatters” within a maximum period of 48 hours. They also propose to prohibit people who illegally occupy housing from registering in this accommodation and to toughen the penalties up to three years in prison, in the most serious cases. The Popular Party included – at the beginning of the year – all these measures in a bill that managed to be approved in the Senate, but which has not yet been processed in the Lower House.
In addition, the PP proposal formulates a modification of the land law with the aim of accelerate the procedures for releasing available landand reduce the time needed for the process of building a new home. “More land, more new and rehabilitated housing, less bureaucracy,” insisted Martín during the press conference held today in Genoa.
In the fiscal chapter, the rule establishes two incentives, one aimed at increasing the rental supply and the other dedicated to facilitating the purchase of housing by young people. On the one hand, they offer a 100% deduction of personal income tax on income from the rental of accommodation that had previously been unused for at least two years. The contract must be aimed at people under 35 and its duration must be at least 3 years. Added to this is a bonus of 100% in the payment of inheritance and gift taxes for family members who wish to give an amount to a young person with the aim of purchasing a house.
Finally, and as has been said for months, the law seeks to repeal the government’s rule, particularly in everything relating to price controls and the declaration of stressed areas. “Since the law came into force, rents have been reduced by 15% and prices have increased by 13%,” Martín said. It should be noted that this aspect of the norm has only been deployed in Catalonia, since the rest of the Autonomous Communities with tight rental markets are governed by the Popular Party, which refuses to deploy the law.
