Junts per Catalunya does not contemplate backing in the Congress of Deputies the housing law that the central government has agreed with its partners, and that will be approved next Thursday in plenary session. The spokesperson for the formation in the Lower House, Míriam Nogueras, denounced this Monday at a press conference that the new legislation violates the powers of the Generalitat, and has demanded that the president Pere Aragonès make the Catalan Executive be respected.
"The Government of the Generalitat must be respected and it does not," said Nogueras. "President Aragonès should have defended a minimum of the little self-government that they are leaving. Each law that the Council of Ministers approves takes away powers and resources from Catalonia", he added in this regard.
Beyond denouncing this violation of Catalan powers and classifying the new law as "not very rigorous", Nogueras has verified that the affordable rental offer "is getting lower and lower" after the Catalan law that was approved by the Parliament and overthrew the Constitutional Court; that in Catalonia 85% of the owners are small owners and "with this law their legal uncertainty increases"; and that "it does not solve the great problem of access to housing". "That is why Sareb homes were offered, 50,000, which is not 50,000 and the majority in non-stressed or non-habitable areas today", she added.
Regarding the rental price cap, at JxCat they consider that it should be a temporary and not a structural measure, as provided for in the new law. Another aspect that they emphasize in training is relative to salaries. "The Government cannot make a law to resemble Denmark when the average salary in Spain is 20,900 euros and in Denmark it is 61,000 euros," Nogueras pointed out.
The Junts leader has also pointed out that the Government's plan does not have the consensus of all the agents, only of the partners of the central coalition Executive, that it does not promote public-private collaboration and that "it does not facilitate access to the market of property to young people or people with intellectual disabilities". Nogueras has remarked that they remain open to negotiations until the last moment, although they see it as difficult for there to be a change of position of the Executive of Pedro Sánchez.
Regarding the Sareb announcement, Nogueras has quantified that in the city of Barcelona, a stressed area, not even 700 apartments can be used today and of those "not all are habitable today." "Two years ago we asked for the transfer of the Sareb flats. It has been done by the Government and by the groups in Madrid and the flats that were in good shape have disappeared because they have been sold", detailed the deputy, who also He has referred to the low number of public social housing stocks compared to other countries.
Another of JxCat's reproaches for the new legislation has to do with the calendar and the proximity of the municipal elections on May 28. "Why do Sánchez and Unidas Podemos wait a month after the elections to announce the flats that do not exist when they have had the entire legislature to do so?", questioned the post-convergent leader in Madrid.
The PDECat, which has four deputies in Congress, also expressed its rejection of this law due to the invasion of powers, just like the CUP. An aspect that the PNV has also underlined. On the other hand, Esquerra Republicana and EH Bildu do support the new legislation.
