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Díaz “welcomes” a public housing company but says he will not lower prices

The second vice president of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, “welcomed” this Monday the announcement by the Chief Executive, Pedro Sánchez, to create a large public housing company, but pointed out that it will not serve to lower prices and blamed the 11 communities governed by the PP to maintain the high rental amounts.

“The news is welcome, it is a form of management, it is good and therefore we design collective strategies as a country, from the public, in terms of housing, but this does not serve to lower the price of housing in our country today,” Díaz said in statements to the press in Brussels upon his arrival at the Employment Council of the European Union.

For the vice president, “it is important that Spain has a public housing agency, but it is more important to comply with the constitutional mandate and the Spanish Constitution says that you cannot speculate with housing.”

Therefore, in his opinion, the “immediate” task of the Government must be something “key” and, first of all, it must entail compliance with “the housing law and ensure that the 11 autonomous communities of the PP, which “They are rebels to it, lower rental prices in 11 autonomous communities.”

“For this it is clear that what we have today is not useful, nor is a public housing agency going to lower the price. This is a form of organization that we share, logically, but I insist, what is urgent today is to lower the price of housing,” Díaz stressed.

For the second vice president of the Government, apart from the future creation of a public housing company, the Executive has to “act immediately with the regulation of seasonal and rental prices, which are raising the price of housing.”

In this sense, Díaz “deeply” regretted that the Socialist Party had voted against the tax reform of a measure that was “key”, which was the increase in VAT to 21% on these homes. He insisted that “to lower the price we must act immediately, as is done in other countries, preventing the sale and purchase of homes that are destined for speculation.”

Furthermore, Díaz was in favor of “withdrawing public funds received by 11 autonomous communities governed by the Popular Party, which contumaciously refuse to apply the housing law.”

The President of the Government and Secretary General of the PSOE announced yesterday that the Executive will create a large public housing company for the construction and management of them from the General Administration of the State. Sánchez made this announcement at the closing of the 41st Federal Congress of the PSOE held in Seville over the weekend and in which the leadership of the party was renewed before the 7,000 attendees at the closing of the congressional event. (Efe)