The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeidacompared this Saturday the Federal Congress of the PSOE with “the interplanetary summit of corruption” and has asked ironically whether the socialists will hold the next congress in Seville “or in Alcalá Meco”, the prison located in Alcalá de Henares.
Martínez-Almeida has disgraced the fact that the socialists have begun their conclave “greeting effusively” Manuel Chávez, José Antonio Griñán, Magdalena Álvarez and Carmen Fernández and has predicted: “If they have started this one like this, In the next one they will start by asking for applause for Begoña, Koldo, Ábalos and Aldama in the best tradition of the Socialist Party because they are not different from Manolo, José Antonio and Magdalena. Except for the amount of what was stolen, the rest are identical.”
José Luis Martínez-Almeida conveyed this message in his speech at Table 2 ‘Access to housing from the municipal perspective’ scheduled at the 27 Intermunicipal of the PP in which the Madrid councilor has vindicated the effectiveness of his City Council in housing policies because it has adequately diagnosed the problem.
“There is a supply problemnot enough housing has been built and the legislation of the left has not allowed it to be built,” concluded the mayor who has placed Madrid as “the first city in Europe in the construction of affordable housing.”
This table has been moderated by the Deputy Secretary of Sustainable Development, Paloma Martinwhich has advocated for proposals from the municipal perspective that give a “radical turnaround” to the problem of access to housing at a time when the market is broken, for which it has held the national government responsible for having given “everything the steps to strangle the rental market”.
“Ideas have consequences and “When they are bad, the results are disastrous.”Paloma Martín has asserted that she has warned that if course is not changed quickly “the situation is only going to get worse.” That said, he has sent a message for the future and has addressed young people to assure them that they can aspire to be owners, to buy a home and not pay impossible prices for renting a home.
Martín has demanded that the stressed market areas and rental price indices be repealed, he has committed to continue fighting against the occupation and has asked the president of the Congress of Deputies, Francina Armengol, stop stopping the anti-squatting law which began its processing in the Senate, which involves the eviction of the squatters in 24 hours, the impossibility of registering and the increase in penalties for those who commit the crimes of the occupation and for all the mafias that promote the occupation.
“That the time to recover one’s possession has been increased from 11 to 21 months is not the result of chance, it is the result of a law, such as the Housing Law, What it does is shield the squatters“, he has settled.
For his part, the mayor of Badalona, Xavi García Albiol, whom the moderator has referred to as the reference in the PP and in Spain in the fight against illegal occupation, has assured that this problem is affecting “many citizens” of the country for something “so sad, so pitiful and so simple” as if Spanish laws benefit and protect squatters, “those they have made vulnerable”, in front of the neighbors and in front of the owners with an image that they put their homes for rent “as if they were some type of usurers who “They want to exploit the weakest.”
“What is happening in Spain with illegal squatting has no precedent in Europe, neither in right-wing governments nor in left-wing governments,” he stated, while the PP spokesperson in Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, has opted to follow the example. of Madrid through public-private collaboration to build 10,000 homes in Barcelona.
Sirera has not ruled out going to court so that the Barcelona City Council evict people who are squatting in buildings municipal.
The mayor of Santander, Gema Igual, has called for all administrations to address the problem of access to housing and has joked about the “invention” of the Government of Pedro Sánchez regarding the construction of housing throughout the country, in the face of the “realities” that the PP has applied in the Cantabrian capital.
And the mayor of Palma de Mallorca, Jaime Martínez Llabrés, has accused the central government of “bullfighting” the Consistory which has been trying for a year and a half to get the Executive to develop a 100,000 square meter plot of land with which there could be 1,000 new homes at affordable prices for both rental and sale and also social.
Finally, the president of the Palencia Provincial Council, Ángeles Armisén, has put on the table the “difficult” problem of the demographic challenge which, as he has lamented, is linked to that of access to housing, an issue that is aggravated in towns with fewer inhabitants while the Government of Spain “is neither present nor expected.”