The minister Conxita Marsol has announced that after the Government have received one proposal for six private properties to acquire them and put them on the affordable rental market, the executive is already working on “a new supply demand” focused on renting. In other words, in which building owners can propose to the executive a long term rental of its building so that it can also integrate the rental market at an affordable price. Conxita Marsol, who has assessed that the offer of six properties was already what was “expected” and that a process is now being opened to analyze them, “to see what conditions they have”, although she has already advanced that “there are interesting things.”
The head of Housing explained at the EFA conference that while they were analyzing the six purchase proposals, the opening of “this new edict or this new demand for offers will be made so that people who have a proposal at the rental level, as long as it is buildings that are very finished and that require practically no work and that they allow us to use them very quickly, because they can.” marsol has announced that “in fifteen days” they will put it on the table and they will be given an approximate period of fifteen days to present themselves. The minister emphasized that they have received owners interest in this lease in the long term (he talked about 30 years) who have contacted them emphasizing that “maybe it costs them to sell” but that, on the other hand, they could consider the option of renting. “It’s worth opening it up and analyzing everything”, remarked the minister, who also wanted to assess that among the purchase proposals there are properties “spread across all the parishes”. And he remembered that he was asked to be properties that require little investment for their setup so that the executive does not have to “make a lot of investment” to enable them.
Consensus with the commons on incentives
Regarding the bill with the followingincentives for the private sector to promote affordable housingand that it would be desirable to enter parliamentary procedure when the period of sessions restarts, he emphasized that he now has a month and a half to work on it and that “there is the maximum consensus between the Government and the commons“. In fact, he has defended that he wants it to be “a joint thing with the commons” so that he can “move forward, because it is a need that the country has”.
The minister has explained that she has made a commitment to the consuls who may have one proposal on the table in “ten or twelve days” so that they have about “ten or fifteen” more to make contributions. And although he has acknowledged that in the meeting of consuls in which he presented the proposal there was no firm commitment on the part of the municipal representatives (as commented this Wednesday by the Consul Major of Escaldes-Engordany, Rosa Gili) “the general feeling of most of the consuls who were there” is that they see the proposal with a good eye, since he said that they have expressed to him or conveyed to him that are “in favor” of the proposal although there may be “some nuance”. “I am sure that the consuls have understood and are willing, as most of them have made me feel, to go ahead with this project,” she declared. In this way, he remarked that “most consuls are already in favor because most understand that one of the main problems in this country is housing and it is the great concern of the citizens and I think of all the consuls, maybe not of all, but of a large majority.”
Marsol has emphasized that the bill will include the subsidy of 10% of the construction cost “as long as they meet all the conditions because there must also be some consideration by the owner that wants to be accommodated in this program” and has clarified that this grant will be indexed to one standard construction price which will be fixed by the executive.
And as for the proposal of some consuls that can to build on non-developable land to promote housing, marsol has stated that it should be analyzed as long as it is in very specific situations: “as long as it is very expensive and with very specific conditions” and that the services are already available and with the condition that it is used for affordable housing and that the territory is preserved.
