The president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóoannounced this Sunday a package of measures to promote the purchase or rental of housing at the party’s summit held in Asturias.
One of the most relevant measures agreed between Feijóo and the popular barons is to reduce to 4% in their territories the transfer tax on the purchase of second-hand homes for young people.
100% financing
Another measure is to facilitate 100% of the financing to under 40 years for the purchase of the first home. Feijóo has affirmed that from the PP they are going to lower taxes “to everyone”. “We are going to lower taxes for those who buy a home. We are going to lower it to those who rent housing and we are also going to lower it to those who rent housing,” he added.
Anti-okupas measures
“We are tired of being taxed and having obstacles and more obstacles to try to survive. Most see that the quality of their lives is declining,” he said during his speech at the Hotel de la Reconquista in Oviedo, pointing out the objective of the PP to lower taxes “to all” to promote access to housing, repeal a Housing Law that he describes as “interventionist”, promote a new ‘Land Law’ and a ‘Law against squatting’, with a service for victims of squatting. Under the slogan The policy that serves Feijóo and his ‘barons’ consider that housing is “a serious problem in Spain” and “families know it, especially young people, who face exorbitant prices, with low wages and the highest youth unemployment in Europe”. “The owners who suffer the occupation of their homes know it. And the developers know it, who are aware of the obstacles”, he added.
PP measures
Thus, in their ‘Declaration of Asturias’, the PP propose ten measures to “kick-start the National Housing Plan“, which they will present in the coming weeks. To this end, they are committed to apply tax incentives to boost the market “focused especially on target groups: young people, people with disabilities, large or single-parent families, victims of gender violence, municipalities at risk of depopulation, historic centers and rural areas“.
30% below market price
In addition, they are committed to promoting the construction of affordable rental housing at a price up to 30% below the market, through the transfer of surface rights or administrative concessions on public land; to mobilize public land, both patrimonial and demanial, for the promotion of public, social and affordable housing, either rented or owned; and to promote subsidized housing (or affordable housing) in property, making the regulatory framework for the construction of public and private subsidized housing (VPO) more flexible, aimed at that broad spectrum of society that is not a beneficiary of social housing, but finds it difficult to access free housing. They also want to offer incentives to developers and builders for the development of subsidized housing actions, “recovering the successful model that made it possible to create a Spain of homeowners in the 80s and 90s”. Consolidating an open market is another objective of the PP to promote “administrative and regulatory simplification and reduce bureaucracy”.
