The counselor of Housing, Youth, and Land Planning, Rocío Díaz, has advanced this Tuesday that the legal services of the Junta de Andalucía are analyzing "if there is any issue that incurs in unconstitutionality" in the distribution of 180 million euros that the Government of Pedro Sánchez will allocate in direct subsidies to the autonomous communities that have declared areas of tense residential market, with the aim of increasing the supply of affordable housing and containing rental prices.
These aids were announced a week ago after the Council of Ministers gave the green light to the royal decree that regulates these allocations, from which Andalucía is excluded for not having declared tense areas. The Andalusian Executive has already confirmed that it will file an appeal before the Constitutional Court against the two housing decrees approved in the Permanent Deputation of Congress after the Plenary rejected them.
During her speech at the informative breakfasts of Europa Press Andalucía, held at the headquarters of the Cajasol Foundation, Rocío Díaz recalled that the Junta presented allegations to the royal decree of tense areas and admitted that "it was a surprise" that the Council of Ministers approved last week a regulation in which "the funds are doubled" --from 90 to 180 million euros-- for the five autonomous communities that have declared tense areas. "And the one that benefits the most is Catalonia, with 112 million in that distribution," emphasized the Andalusian Minister of Housing.
"It is a lot of coincidence, because what the decree says is that the construction of protected housing, rehabilitation, and urbanization will be incentivized. We wonder from Andalucía why these measures are not applied to the rest of the communities. It is the money of everyone. Why is it not applied to the rest? The answer is clear: because there is a clear political bias. What the Government of Pedro Sánchez is doing is benefiting those communities that apply its policies because declaring or not a tense area is at the discretion of the autonomous community," argued Rocío Díaz.
The counselor reiterated that Andalucía "does not agree with the tense areas" because the limitation "pushes away and removes" housing from the market, "as we are seeing in Catalonia."
"Each apartment ad used to receive ten" requests and now "it has multiplied by five and six" the number of people who respond to a rental ad. As an alternative to the stressed areas, Andalusia incorporates in its Housing Law the priority housing areas. "We do politics positively." "What needs to be done is to put all resources, not to prohibit, prohibit, prohibit. That is what Pedro Sánchez does and that is unacceptable."