The Popular Parliamentary Group has voted today against, in the plenary session of the Riojan Chamber and through the deputy Catalina Bastida, the state Housing Plan, despite having the support of the Executive of La Rioja, alleging: "We do not trust it".
In the same session, the Podemos-Izquierda Unida Parliamentary Group has registered a motion for a non-law for the Parliament of La Rioja to urge the regional Government to fully employ the funds corresponding to it (119 million euros) from the State Housing Plan 2026-2030 in public housing policies.
The IU deputy Carlos Ollero has defended the proposal, emphasizing that the situation of access to housing "continues to deteriorate in a worrying way, and the measures implemented are not working".
As he has stated, "evictions have increased by fourteen percent, prices continue to rise, and La Rioja is the autonomous community with the largest increase in rental prices in the last year".
For Izquierda Unida, the state Housing Plan "is not ideal" because it gives "too much prominence to business and does not bet on price containment".
However, he has presented it as "an opportunity if it is taken advantage of" and has insisted that "La Rioja cannot afford to give up a single euro, nor these resources, for ideological reasons".
The IU initiative called for dedicating the plan's funds to expanding the public stock of affordable and social rental housing (without the need for new construction, Ollero specified); offering a specific way for young people to face the economic effort; ensuring direct management, without transfers, "to avoid what happened in Logroño"; and asking the Government of Spain to increase funding.
"We are going to vote against it," replied the 'popular' Catalina Bastida, recalling that, in the Sectoral Conference, the autonomous communities, including La Rioja, "have supported it because it must be supported"; but she stressed: "Not here, because everything that sanchismo says can turn into smoke."
During the debate, the socialist Sergio Martínez Astola stated that he shared the general approach of the IU motion, although he pointed out that these are actions that "are already included in the State Housing Plan itself".
This plan, he explained, includes "more aid for young people, support for working families, and more resources for vulnerable people".
On behalf of Vox, Hector Alacid has rejected the fundamental approach of the plan, considering that it implies "more intervention, more bureaucracy, and more public control". "Everything public, everything controlled by the Administration, and no private initiative, as we defend the opposite," he concluded.