The Popular Party warns of a wave of lawsuits over the government's sloppy housing decrees, which they believe worsen the rental situation and promote squatting. (translated)
Pedro Sánchez intensifies pressure on parliamentary groups to validate the housing decrees, urging them to choose between protecting citizens or speculative interests. (translated)
This week we have approved important measures to protect people, to guarantee the right to housing. I ask Congress to rise to the occasion and sense of state to validate the decrees in tomorrow's session. I ask that humanity prevail over ideology. (translated)
With the PA Decree, we have taken a historic step for the AFAM: their diplomas become degrees. It is a recognition that fully restores the value of Higher Artistic, Musical, and Dance Education and fits into the path of enhancing talent. (translated)
So the housing decree was for this... Is there not a single socialist deputy who has a conscience and refuses to vote for such an abomination? (translated)
“The Government has tricked by separating the decrees to let fall the measure that is more structural.” Irene Montero: “The Government has tricked by separating the decrees to let fall the measure that is more structural.” Daniel Ríos (translated)
The housing decree, which aims to protect tenants, ignores the needs of both those who need to rent and the owners, who are mainly ordinary people who support the rental market in Spain. (translated)
Antonio Garamendi has described the housing decrees proposed by the Government as a "shameful image" for Spain, criticizing the violation of constitutional rights in their implementation and defending the need for an economic model that respects business freedom and private property. (translated)
Antonio Garamendi has been reelected as the leader of the CEOE for a third term, where he vigorously criticized the government's housing decrees, accusing it of undermining rights and invading private property. (translated)
Enough with guerrilla takeovers disguised as "social explosion"! Attacking police, throwing explosives, and destroying businesses cannot continue to be justified by the right to protest. The government's draft decree is necessary. The rights of other Colombians also matter. Authority exists to protect them, not to watch how they disrupt their daily lives. (translated)
The first eviction under the 'Maricarmen decree' has been suspended in Barcelona, protecting a woman in a vulnerable situation, according to the Tenants' Union. (translated)
#BreakingNews 🔴 Junts distances itself from the Housing decrees: "The Government lies. We are not afraid to burn ourselves to defend families and small property owners in Catalonia." (translated)
You'll see when the courts try to interpret the two decrees according to the will of the legislator, and discover that the legislator's will was only to gain votes. (translated)
FACUA urges the parties to approve the two housing decrees in Congress Despite their shortcomings, they would represent an important first step to improve tenants' rights. (translated)
My housing decree: 1. Dedicate more resources to building public housing. (the current levels are lamentable) 2. Free up land and streamline permits. (to this day this is used by municipalities to gain more power) 3. Improve public transport and infrastructure to make underpopulated areas attractive. 4. Tax incentives for companies and workers who move to underpopulated areas. 5. Limit tourist housing in tense areas. (we need to choose whether we want cities to be for their residents or for tourists) 6. Toughen the conditions to convert residential housing into vacation rentals. 7. Raise taxes on empty homes for long periods and provide incentives to owners who rent out those homes. (If investment funds or foreigners want to have homes, they should at least contribute to increasing the supply in the rental market or pay, and those taxes should be allocated to public housing) 8. Facilitate the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings and homes. 9. Increase urban density where possible. 10. Provide legal security to rentals to increase the supply. (toughen anti-squat laws and stop introducing new regulations frequently) What would yours be? I'm listening. (translated)
Vicente Vallés has stated that the pressure from tenants and the fear of Pedro Sánchez's downfall could be determining factors for the approval of housing decrees by the Government's partners in the vote next Friday. (translated)
«La vivienda no se puede legislar en caliente, a lo loco, rápido y con urgencia, por mucha presión social que genere el desahucio de Maricarmen, algo que a mí también me rompió el alma»Preguntada en el programa 'En boca de todos' sobre los dos reales decretos aprobados por el Ejecutivo de Pedro Sánchez, Susana Díaz ha respondido de manera contundente. #Vivienda #Desahucios #SusanaDíaz
Second 'fraud of law' already published. It neither addresses the extraordinary or urgent need required (article 86 of the Constitution) of any decree law; nor will it prosper, so in reality, it only serves a very specific purpose: political staging to point out the parties that vote against... Electoral machinery for pre-campaign, underway. (translated)
🤔Some reflections on the voting on Friday 👇 🫡 Left-wing parties will abide by what social organizations say, as happened with the RD of Palestine. 😮💨 That this generates relief in the PSOE and Sumar (while making things easier for Junts and the PNV) and causes some 😠 frustration in the squares and left-wing groups should be understood as the reality of politics. The congratulations from Minister Puente, so outraged these days by the maximalism of the demands, say it all. 📰 Just look at today's covers of the progressive media to understand that we are in another scenario. The media expect that the squares will empty from tomorrow. 🤔Could it have been different? Rufián disavowing Junqueras by saying that ERC's vote was not assured, or various economists from the Sumar environment criticizing the measures of the decrees as insufficient, made me think that there could be a pressure block on the Government beyond Podemos and squares full of younger individuals more radicalized than the social organizations. 🙋🏻♂️🙋♀️ But it is the tenant unions that are responsible for pinpointing the scope of their objectives and defining their strategy for mobilization and negotiation. And this must be accepted. 🚩However, beyond that, the street has once again taken on political prominence in Spain and has gone beyond social organizations. The squares, as was the case with 15M, have managed to place the debate on housing (an ideological one, without a doubt) at the political center and have allowed left mobilization to regain momentum. 🔴 From the experiences of mobilization processes, new political leaders always emerge. I have spoken with some members of youth political organizations who have learned a lot these days from their prominence in the squares. Order reigns in Berlin... For now... (translated)
🚨We already have the second Royal Decree-Law on housing. I'm not going to analyze it because, directly, it seems to me a fraud of law. There is a political purpose and another to divert attention, in no case a legal purpose. I'm going to make a different reflection this time. Yesterday's RD-L allows for the appearance of action and today's, designed to fail, allows for pointing out those who vote against and presenting themselves as the party that wanted the indefinite contract and wasn't allowed to. In neither case is there the extraordinary and urgent need that article 86 CE requires to enable a Royal Decree-Law. On the other hand, while this topic is being discussed, the poor or nonexistent management of Ceuta is left out of the picture; the indications of pressure and harassment on a judge; the alteration of the electoral body by the Grandchildren's Law and the numerous corruption cases that remain open. (translated)
