The until now Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Jose Luis Ábalos, leaves the Ministry without having been able to carry out the Housing Law due to the lack of consensus with We can, the government partner party, on the most convenient way to limit rental prices.
Ábalos, who has been part of the initial team of Pedro Sánchez’s Government since he acceded to the presidency of the Executive, will be replaced by the mayor of Gavá, Rachel Sanchez Jimenez. A man of total confidence of Pedro Sánchez, Ábalos formed the negotiating team of the PSOE made possible by the coalition government with Podemos. It should be remembered that he was in charge of conducting the negotiations with the political groups so that the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy.
During the pandemic, it approved measures aimed at coping with the effects of the health crisis and accelerating economic reactivation, the well-known ‘social shield’, which was subsequently extended on several occasions and which included a battery of measures in the field of air, sea and road transport. In addition Ábalos also carried out reforms also in the area of housing.
The department headed by Ábalos has had to deal with the almost total stoppage and subsequent reactivation of public transport (airports, trains, bus line concessions) during the pandemic, with measures to protect the business fabric, reconciling it with respect for consumer rights.
Thus, the former Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda has left the Ministry without having reached an agreement with the Minister of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, Ione Belarra, to face some of the main problems of the Spanish real estate market, such as access to housing for young people. The objective continues to be to pass a Law that guarantees the social function of housing, that serves the most vulnerable and that is endowed with legal security.
Rental price
The latest proposal presented by Transportes included, among other issues, that in the case of new tenant change contracts in stressed areas, rents may rise by a maximum of 10% compared to the previous contract. The Ministry made it clear that the proposal “scrupulously” complied with the agreements signed with the government partner and had the main objective of ending abusive increases, containing rents and reducing rents.
For its part, Grass assured that there was no agreement with him PSOE and that the “only way to lower rental prices” is with benchmarks, not tax incentives. ” Nine months have passed since both partners reached an agreement to promote the new Housing Law With rental regulations and regulations, it accumulates almost five months of delay on the initially proposed schedule, which was to bring said regulations to Congress in February.
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