The day after Congress has approved the first housing law Democracy, the Minister of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, raquel sanchezhas charged against those who “generate noise” and that they promote that it is a law that injures property and that promotes occupations. “It does not go against anyone”, he has claimed, while also warning that “it will not cause a immediate and resounding drop in rental prices“.
Sánchez has pronounced this sentence precisely to defend that the new norm “it is not a lease law” and “does not violate property”although precisely the criticisms from movements such as the Platform for People Affected by the Mortgage (PAH) They go along the lines of pointing out that there will not be a significant drop in the rental price. Just before the conference, a dozen activists from the entity have slipped into the act to denounce that the new norm “do not top the price” of rents, does not stop evictions or “do anything” for mortgages.
Sánchez has argued that the law aims to guarantee access to housing at a price that is “reasonable” and that for this reason it is sought that the owner finds it “more costly to freeze the price or even lower it” to have tax benefits. He has also defended that, contrary to what the right promotes, it is not a law that “protect occupations”.
“It is not necessary to generate fear and alarm and social”
Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda
“You don’t have to generate fear and alarm and social“, he has claimed after explaining that, in the case of vulnerable families, the agreement with large holders to set a social rent is prioritized and, if this agreement does not take place and the conditions are not met, the eviction “continues”. In any case , has affirmed that evictions “are paralyzed” and that crimes of usurpation “have decreased”, which is why it has demanded “rigor” from its rivals.
However, for “shift the paradigm” with new bases for housing policy, he underlined, it is necessary to promote the public housing parkreason for which he recalled that the Government is putting tools such as the Sareb homes or the land owned by the Ministry of Defense available to the autonomous communities and town halls, which “are the ones with the powers.” The council of ministers, he has pointed out, will approve in two weeks the transfer of land by the Defense and dates and data will be provided, an action by the executive that will break into the middle of the electoral campaign of the municipalities.
Harsh criticism of the Generalitat
The minister has also launched harsh criticism of the Government on account of the management of Rodalies, the drought, the B-40 agreement or the figures of the always controversial percentage of investment execution in Catalonia. Regarding the operation of the railway network, she has maintained that “it is normal” for incidents to occur but that now “they occur less” no matter how much the Generalitat “makes a biased and twisted reading of the data”.
He has insisted that the Catalan administration is responsible for setting the schedules, frequencies and rates since 2019 and has accused it of not “exercising its powers” while claiming a “full transfer” who holds that not viable for legal reasons. Once again, he has called on the Government to sign the program-contract: “It also has responsibility for the operation of Rodalies, we do not understand why we cannot move forward and improve the service.”
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The minister has also made reference to the meeting that took place this Thursday between the ministry and the Generalitat for the B-40 agreement, which she has described as “productive”. Even so, she has dropped that she is an example of how the Catalan executive “He can’t stand the pressure of the media spotlight” because it is an infrastructure that was already agreed a year ago with the former vice president of the Government Jordi Puignero. “That has made us go late, we cannot make the citizens pay the lack of courage of the Government”, he snapped.
“More investment than ever”
Raquel Sánchez has also delved into the lack of “investment” by the Generalitat in infrastructure to deal with the drought while ignoring “the good running data” of the investments in Catalonia by the Government at the moment. In the year 2022, he pointed out, they were 844 million, 32.5% more than in the previous year. “We are investing in Catalonia more than ever. It is not logical that the Government says that we do not invest and, on the other hand, does not say to which infrastructures it will allocate the 750 million of the third additional provision”, he has sentenced.