The PP of Aragon has moved to the Teruel town of Alcañiz to highlight the actions in the field of housing that it is carrying out at the head of the regional government. At an event led by number one on the list to the Congress for the province of Teruel, Alberto Herrero, the urgency of expanding the public housing stock was underlined in order to respond to the housing crisis affecting the entire province: from the capital to the rural areas, passing through the county seats and the municipalities with the greatest tourism weight.
At the meeting, Octavio López, the coordinator of the PP Aragon Presidency, spoke, placing the focus on the push for 444 homes distributed across the entire province through the different programs of the Plan Aragón Más Vivienda, the roadmap of the regional executive to address the housing problem in the community.
"We are determined to put solutions in place in the province of Teruel --Octavio López has declared--, to the point that the Partido Popular has already promoted 444 homes with different instruments and programs designed to tackle the housing crisis". López has detailed that 106 of these homes will be built on Calle Italia in Teruel city, an affordable rental development that Habitalia Teruel will build thanks to a 75-year concession. He also indicated that 159 homes are being renovated or built in towns with fewer than 3,000 inhabitants through the Program 700, from which 81 Teruel municipalities have already benefited.
To these initiatives are added another 126 homes that are planned in 16 tourist municipalities and the 53 planned with the new Program +3000 in Alcañiz and Alcorisa. López highlighted the involvement of the town councils, noting that "the solution to the housing drama, which the left has led us to over its years in charge of the Government of Aragon and the disastrous Housing Law of Pedro Sánchez, requires the sum of efforts of the different administrations".
The coordinator of the PP Aragón Presidency has emphasized the “good disposition of the Alcañiz City Council, which will cede 18 plots for the promotion of a minimum of 30 VPA so that they are acquired by people from Alcañiz at a protected housing price. A transfer that will be formalized through an agreement between the Government of Aragón and the city council, the same formula that will be established with Alcorisa to launch 23 homes in the municipality.” He has also recalled that Teruel will host the first residential PIGA, aimed at speeding up the construction of 1,000 homes for workers promoted by the Tervalis Group, with an initial phase of 250 units.
Criticism of the national housing decree
The Partido Popular candidate for Congress from Teruel, Alberto Herrero, has questioned the housing decree approved by the Government of Pedro Sánchez, focusing on its impact on supply. As he indicated, after the entry into force of the rule, the availability of properties fell by 20% and pressure increased in areas that until then did not present a strained market.
Herrero has also criticized that the Executive has turned to the Congress’s Permanent Delegation to try to reverse the rejection of the decree in the Plenary Session, stating that “It had never been seen.” He has also highlighted that the electoral program of Alberto Núñez Feijóo sets as a goal “the construction of one million homes in the next legislature” in coordination with the autonomous communities and city councils.
The candidate has advanced that the PP intends to elevate housing policy to the rank of deputy prime minister of the Government and that, during the first hundred days in office, it commits to reform the Land Law and the Horizontal Property Law, in addition to promoting a law against illegal squatting which, as he has detailed, will allow occupants to be evicted within 48 hours.