PP and Vox reject the Government's housing decrees in Congress

The allusions of the Minister of Housing, Isabel Rodríguez, to PP and Vox have been of no use, accusing them of being "more on the side of speculation than of persecuting those who are skyrocketing prices." Both parties continue to reject the two housing decrees whose validation is being voted on this Friday in the Congress of Deputies and which, after Junts' 'no', will not prosper. They advocate increasing supply through construction and reject the "interventionist" measures proposed by the Executive. On behalf of the Popular Party, the deputy secretary of Finance, Housing and Infrastructure, Juan Bravo, has accused the Government of having "an entire generation on pause" for having aggravated the housing problem and has offered the plan that his party presented in 2023, addressing directly to "the Spaniards who are outside": "We are not going to fail you, we have a plan for you to have a home."

Bravo has charged against the head of Housing and the "sanchismo", whom he has held responsible for "having ruined" housing in Spain. For this reason, in his opinion, the "interventionism" that is included in the texts is not going to fix the problem: "We voted no to ignoring that it is a problem of supply deficit, we voted no to using the drama of an 87-year-old woman to cover up her management failure," he attacked.

In fact, according to the popular parliamentarian, these decrees would not have prevented the eviction of Maricarmen nor would the vulnerable have been protected because the way to do it is to build to expand the supply of real estate. "They are going to cause more guarantees, more guarantees and much higher salaries for those who want to access housing. They are going to unprotect the mother with her child and with a temporary contract, the young person who only has one job or all those who earn less than 1,800 euros a month," Bravo stressed, to state: "They say they protect the vulnerable and what they have done is turn them into the tenant that no one wants to have."

The popular has vindicated the plan that his party presented three years ago, which includes the construction of one million homes in four years, legal security, streamlining procedures, guarantees, a reduction in VAT from 10% to 4% and deductions for landlords and tenants. At the end of his speech, he addressed the Spanish population directly to admit that although "it will not be easy or quick", the day will come when "you will put a key in a lock and say that I am already home."