THE third vice president And Minister of Housing, Youth and Migration Policies of the Government of Navarra, Begoña Alfaroannounced this Monday the 21 municipalities of the Foral community in which the process of declaration of Distressed residential market areaswhich cover the 68.3% of the Navarrese population.
As explained Alfaro in one press conference in which he appears alongside the Director General of Housing, Elga Molinathis Monday’s announcement concerns “only” the “municipalities which, on the basis of the data, enter the declaration process stressed market areaa process that we are beginning today and of which administrative procedures Strictly speaking, we will start in January 2025 with the correspondent opening statement and submission to public exhibition“.
“Today nothing is formally declared, but we are announcing the areas in which we will begin the process. In total, they will be 21 municipalities on which we are going to begin this process, the municipalities which cover the 68.3% of the Navarrese population”, he declared, after adding that this process “is not reduced only to the rental price limitation“, but that the plans developed in these municipalities “may include many other measures“, as incentives to the rental pool or tax incentives.
More precisely, the 21 municipalities are Pamplona, Égües, Mocked, Barañain, Mayor of Zizur, Aranguren, Berriozar, Ansoaïn, Villava, Noáin – Elorz Valley, Huarte And Berrioplano. In the Bankthe municipalities are Tudela, Corella And Cintruenigo. They will also start formalities In Estelle, Tafalla, Baztan, Alsasua, Saint Adrien And Peralta. THE 21 municipalities they stay 459,088 inhabitants with the data of the last official register January 1st, 2023which means 68.3% of the total Navarrese population.
According to Alfarothis measure “is necessary since public administrations must use all tools available at our disposal to try to stop the permanent phenomenon price rise of the accommodation which exclude thousands of people from the market families“.
Alfaro told the data mining which was carried out and the statistical sources verified “to meet at least one of the four requirements required by the law“, which are that the evolution of prices, both in bought of the to rent outare greater than CPI plus three points in the last five years or the effort of the familiesboth for purchase and rental, is higher than the 30% average income of houses.
Based on this data, where the statistics coming from College of Registrars of Spain, Navarrese Institute of Statistics (Nastat), Foral Treasure of Navarre And Provincial government rent register“In nine municipalities two of the conditions are met, that of the evolution of prices both for purchase and rental, in ten municipalities the requirement for the evolution of rental prices was given while in two the requirement was met in the price development. “All this data is available in the Preliminary Report on Distressed Market Areas of the Government of Navarra.
THE PROCESS
For his part, the Director General of Housing, Elga Molinadetailed the process which is now beginning, “starting in the next two months with the round and contact with others departments of the Government of Navarra, town halls declared and actors involved“.
At the same time, the Prescriptive memory and a generic action plan “This includes the main actions that the Government wants to carry out after the declaration.” It will be at the beginning of January that the entire declaration process will take place. stressed residential market areas will enter the administrative process “proper, with the relevant phase of public exhibition obligatory to two months where all allegations which we receive in accordance with current legislation”.
It will be when the formal declaration order and “at that time we will inform the Ministry of Housing And Urban agenda the resolution and it will be the Ministry which will provide us with the Hint for the top of rental price which will be applied in areas declared subject to market tensions.
Finally, after all these administrative procedures, “we will give ourselves a deadline of six months prepare, in collaboration with the declared municipalities, the Specific Measurement Plan for each of them, which, in our opinion, is the most important step since this declaration must be considered as a chance for all those municipalities which see, like us from the Government, with great concern for price rise of the Accommodation that we live.”
After emphasizing the importance of this process “also transparent possible”, Molina stressed that “during the entire process, we will inform the Ministry of Housing And Urban agenda to try to avoid problems that arise Cataloniawhich is the only area where declarations of a stressed market area are actually in force, and attempt to avoid differences resolutions or there is disagreement with a few elements.
