The Minister of Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, Jorge Rodrigo, promised that all faults that may have appeared in the homes recently delivered to the residents of Alcorcón will be resolved soon and responded to the mayor, Candelaria Testa, that " If you are concerned about the IBI issue, lower it, because it is she who is going to collect it.”
This was stated during an interview on Servimedia after the Alcorcón City Council and its own mayor transmitted the complaint of some neighbors about some deficiencies in the 140 new homes that the Community of Madrid had recently delivered in the municipality thanks to the Vive Plan.
The counselor highlighted that Plan Vive is a “pioneer at European level” project, in which the Community of Madrid provides land for the construction of public housing under an affordable rental regime. “That is what we are doing to generate supply,” he stated.
Rodrigo assured that it is a program that “is working and is pioneering.” Thus, he continued, "we currently have 6,500 homes awarded in different municipalities in our region and we are going to finish awarding, which are already in bidding, 2,000 new homes."
In this sense, he stressed that it is a project that the rest of the public administrations in Spain "are copying." Furthermore, he appreciated that it is a “real project, a project that can be seen, that can be touched, not only those that are being built, but those that we have already delivered.”
Regarding the homes built and delivered a few weeks ago in Alcorcón, the person responsible for Housing, Transport and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid confirmed that the residents of said town “are happy” for having had the opportunity to access these homes.
“There may be a specific case where they are new homes and there may be some type of error or specific failure, but they are minimal,” Rodrigo commented before guaranteeing that “all those failures and errors that they have will be solved.”
For this reason, he considered that “the only thing” that the mayor of Alcorcón is doing in this case is “politicizing that situation.” In this sense, she indicated that she would like to know “how many homes she has delivered to date in her municipality for the neighbors who live in her city.”
Rodrigo reported that in the coming days they will provide “a lot more housing” in Alcorcón, since construction is already being completed and the marketing deadlines have already been opened.
Therefore, “I think all citizens know that when homes are delivered or built or when someone is given a specific home for rent or ownership, in this case, always if the work is new, there are some types of defects. “Formal,” said the counselor.
In this regard, he defended that the buildings being built under Plan Vive “are quality buildings, they are efficient and made with the highest quality.” Therefore, he criticized the attempt to “throw mud and politicize a situation and a problem such as housing.”
Finally, he sent a message to the mayor of Alcorcón that, “if you are concerned about the IBI issue, what you have to do is lower the IBI tax, since she is the one who is going to collect it.”
The counselor stressed that it is a tax that depends on his municipality and invited Candelaria Testa to lower it, because Alcorcón "is one of the municipalities that has the highest IBI in our region."
