The left also rejects that developers are building 363 rental apartments in Palma at a limited price, 30% below the real price of the real estate market, as announced today by the PP mayor of the Balearic capital, Jaime Martinezand was approved by the board of directors.
After skyrocketing the price of housing during the two terms of the Balearic Government, the Palma City Council and the Consell de Mallorca, until making the capital of the Balearic Islands and the islands as a whole the region of Spain with the largest expensive real estate market in all of Spain, The left rejects the construction of these apartments for rent at reduced prices.
Some houses which will be built by developers on municipal land, in particular in this first lot on six plots in half a dozen neighborhoods of Palma and which a minimum of 30% must be allocated to young people up to 35 years old; a minimum of 10% for those over 65 and another equal percentage for single-parent families.
In separate statements, the socialists of Palma and the separatists of Més criticized this initiative by Mayor Martínez. The socialist spokesperson at Palma Town Hall, Xisco Ducroscriticized the fact that the mayor The housing “drama” “is not a priority”This is why he said that these resources should be used to build social housing.
The PSOE requested the allocation of a budget item of a minimum of 30 million euros for the direct purchase of apartments in Palma and They “regretted” that the mayor “misled citizens again”since he defended that in the previous legislature “projects of more than 400 social housing units were launched in Palma”.
“They will not deliver a single house in this legislature, it will take more than three years to build them and it will not be guaranteed that the maintenance is adequate, nor that the prices are fair and affordable for the majority because 900 euros for a a one-story apartment is nonsense,” Ducrós said.
Likewise, he asserted that in a time of housing emergency, we must “act now” and declare Palma as a stressed area reduce housing rent prices, because, according to him, this decision “cannot be left in private hands”.
The separatists of Més, for their part, assured that the housing plan of the Palma City Hall provides for the construction of a total of 1,200 low-cost apartments It’s a “gift to private developers” and, according to him, “this is not a real solution”.
For your spokesperson, Neus Truyol“there is no clear guarantee” that the houses will go to the people who need them most.
“Without progressive social criteria, a person with a high income could access it, while vulnerable families would be excluded. They have already cut taxes for the rich and now City Hall must build housing for those who have the most,” he complained.
Truyol maintained that the prices announced by the mayor, between 739 and 905 euros for an apartment of 80 square meters, are “much higher” than what the price regulations of the National Housing Law would allow, that “the PP refuses to apply.
“An apartment in Coll den Rabassa, with the same characteristics, could have a rent of between 450 and 750 euros, up to 300 euros less than the PP proposal,” he defended.
In this sense, the spokesperson for Més per Palma indicated that they “The lack of demand is worrying” in terms of quality and energy efficiency houses.
In this way, he claimed that developers could build “at lower cost” to have “greater benefits” if they do not use sustainable materials. He therefore predicts that in a few years there will be “deteriorating apartments” which “will require public investments of several million dollars to reform them”.
“The PP puts public land at the service of private companies without offering housing to families with few resources,” declared the municipal representative.
Finally, she stressed that this model “does not help the inhabitants of Palma”, but “only benefits the developers”, which is why the former housing councilor demanded “fair and transparent policies that place the right to housing before private rights. interests.
