The PSOE deputy Begoña Nasarre, a member of the Permanent Deputation of the Congress, has defended this Thursday the approval of Royal Decree-law 29/2026, which includes urgent measures to safeguard the social function of housing and increase the number of properties at affordable prices. At the same time, she has confronted the policies of her party with the model she attributes to PP and Vox, which she holds responsible for fostering real estate speculation.
The Permanent Deputation of the Congress has given the green light to this decree, which incorporates protection instruments for vulnerable people, financing routes to expand the stock of social housing, and various supports to facilitate access to first habitual housing. As the Socialist parliamentarian has highlighted, PP, Vox and Junts voted against the text.
"Today, once again, two housing models have been confirmed: the one defended by the PSOE and which today has allowed the real decree to be carried forward to adopt urgent measures for the protection of the social function of housing, and the model of PP and Vox that defends a model that takes housing as a business," Nasarre said in statements to the media.
The deputy has insisted that the debate has made clear "two country models," one that bets on public housing and the protection of vulnerable people and another that, in her view, places the interests of investment funds ahead of the needs of citizens. "It has become clear two country models: the one of pushing public housing and protecting vulnerable people that we socialists defend, as opposed to the model of vulture funds of PP and Vox," she said.
Nasarre reproached these formations for having rejected, for the fifth time, as she indicated, initiatives linked to public and affordable housing. She also linked the vote to earlier parliamentary proposals which, she recalled, were overturned after the eviction of Maricarmen Abascal and which, as she explained, led to the calling of early elections.
Protection for vulnerable people and more affordable housing
Among the provisions of Royal Decree-Law 29/2026, a time limit is set out for certain home acquisition transactions, applicable from the entry into force of the regulation until December 31, 2030. In addition, a time regime is established for the suspension of certain evictions that affect vulnerable people without alternative housing, and measures related to tenants are included, along with the accreditation of the status of a large landlord.
The decree also promotes the expansion of the public housing stock and the promotion of properties intended for social or affordable rental. To this end, it provides for the creation of the Social Impact Housing Fund and a line of guarantees of up to 2,000 million euros to finance actions that allow the increase or improvement of the supply of this type of rental.
Likewise, the regulation contemplates another line of guarantees of up to 280 million euros to partially cover the financing of the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) aimed at manufacturing or development SMEs that apply industrialized construction systems.
Another of the highlighted measures is the TU CASA mechanism, which will make it possible to grant interest-free and commission-free loans to facilitate the purchase of the first habitual home with a mortgage. These aid measures will cover the lesser amount between 20 percent of the value of the property and a maximum of 50,000 euros.
Criticism of the PP and Vox model
The Socialist MP has expanded her criticisms of the economic approach of PP and Vox and has pointed out that, in her view, speculation is not limited to the housing market, but is also projected onto the energy sector.
"On November 29 we have a lot at stake. We risk what model we want, who is with the citizen and their needs or with the vulture funds. Who is with people or who is with speculation," Nasarre has said.
The parliamentarian has stressed that public policies in the area of housing must ensure that the population can carry out its life project in dignified conditions. "The Socialists of Aragón and of the Alto Aragón have clear what country we want: we want whoever works to be able to live with dignity," she concluded.