The Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday a transfer to a new state housing company in 40,000 Sareb facilities, known as a bad bank, to make them “affordable in the form of an affordable rent” in a “urgent and strategic” method. This transfer responds to the intention to raise, around a public organization of land (SEPES), a state -owned company, with the possibility of promoting and building housing at an affordable price, both for sale and for rent.
“We are talking about creating these houses in the form of an affordable rent available to citizens below the market price and in no case exceeds 30% of families,” Housing Minister Isabelle Rodriguez, who emphasized that “that served as rescue banks today serves to save the family.” In particular, the leader assessed the assets of Sareba to check “which of them can be as soon as possible.”
The President of the Government, Pedro Sanchez, has already announced in January about his intention to include tens of thousands of houses in Sareba in this new public company. “This is a real estate bag, which was funded at the expense of state money and now we are going to return to people,” he said then. According to this premise, in order to return “houses that we should never lose”, the Ministry of Housing for several months worked in this change in the ownership of the “priority purpose” of the “restoration of the state housing park”. “Between the savings of banks or the salvation of families, our model is a public, saving family,” Rodriguez said.
Sareb was created in 2012 in the context of saving the bank, which cost taxpayers about 50,000 million euros, and had the goal of getting rid of real estate and soils, to which banks could not give a way out after a thousand evictions. According to the ministry, in 2022 the government included a social function in its mandate, through which more than 7,700 social lease contracts were signed.
With approved transfer on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, the state housing company will add more than 40,000 houses and about 2400 soils capable of building other 55,000 houses on them. According to the calculations of the ministry, this site will have the estimated cost of 5900 million euros. The change of ownership is carried out, Rodriguez said without the cost of the state, through a “donation, first for the statement of heritage, and then to the state housing and land company.”
Housing profiled this action for several months, in order to ensure that the houses and soils that are transferred are useful in front of the residential crisis that destroys the country. In particular, geographical criteria were established from the Government Commission on Economic Affairs, such as the fact that they are located in the municipalities of the metropolitan districts and islands, and the population exceeded 5,000 inhabitants or more than 1000, but more than 5% in the last decade; Economic, like all those of 85 square meters and up to 150, if the value of the estimate does not exceed 40% of the valuable statistics of the cost of housing; And techniques, such as real estate, do not represent structural pathologies.
In addition, the government allowed the public company to be 593 million euros to adapt these houses, develop acquired soils and continue purchases currently, said Rodriguez, “to form this state housing park” forever.
