The Basque Parliament urges institutions to act in areas with high rental prices

The Basque Parliament has asked the Basque Government and the Provincial Councils to carry out all the technical and regulatory work for define the stressed residential market, and guide public actions in housing matters in those territorial areas where there is a special insufficient supply risk housing for the population, in conditions that make it affordable for your access to the market.

He has also requested “activate price freezing and / or lowering in the terms that the legislation establishes “.

EH Bildu y Elkarrekin Podemos-IU have brought to the plenary session of the Chamber individual initiatives that have been jointly discussed on the rental market regulation and rental policies for facilitate emancipation of the young people.

However, the text that has come out is the agreed between the groups in the Basque Government (PNV and PSE- with Elkarrekin Podemos- IU), which has been voted on by points.

With the support of all the groups and the abstention of EH Bildu and Vox, the Basque Parliament has also urged the Basque Government to advance in the precise statistical operations to collect price variations, the demand for existing housing and the prices of supplies. basic characteristics of said dwellings to complement the relevant statistical information regarding housing policies and adapt the housing policy counting on these.

In addition, the Basque Chamber asks the autonomous government that, once the Youth Law is approved in Parliament, and by virtue of it, implement comprehensive policies on housing, employment, education, culture, with the aim of ” achieve emancipation in dignified conditions for all young people “.

The EH Bildu parliamentarian Eraitz Saez de Egilaz has affirmed that young Basques are not emancipated because they earn a pittance in precarious salaries that they do not give to live on, much less to pay rents that are through the roof, while some are profiting from what is a basic right of all people: the right to decent housing “.

For this reason, with his initiative he asked the Basque Government to, “through the powers and tools that correspond to it,” implement “immediately” its own legal mechanisms to limit the rental prices of housing.

The parliamentarian of Elkarrekin Podemos-IU Iñigo Martinez has highlighted that his coalition has worked in all areas so that in Euskadi and in the whole of the State there is a new competition, a new tool, which is to regulate the prices of the private rental market “,

The PNV parliamentarian Irune Berasaluze has valued the policies carried out by the Basque Government to facilitate access to housing for young people, although it has recognized that “it is not enough” because there are difficulties in emancipation and has defended that with the implementation of the future Youth Law, different policies will be implemented in this regard.

The PSE parliamentarian Sonia Perez has reaffirmed the Executive’s willingness to “work and advance in the generation of a valid, consistent, transparent and accessible statistical system, available to Basque society to apply the new housing policies”.

The PP + Cs parliamentarian Muriel Larrea has defended that if the Basque Government wants to influence rental prices, they should increase the supply and invest in public rental housing.

Finally, the parliamentarian from Vox Amaia Martinez, believes that the initiative represents “a new attack on private property” because “there is no empirical evidence, not even an economic model, to support the fact that by limiting the rental price, imbalances in housing can be corrected” .