Yolanda Díaz wants to limit the purchase of apartments in large cities if it is not to live and provide houses for illegal immigrants

Limit the purchase of houses if it is not to reside in them in areas where the real estate market is “excessively stressed” or there is no space for the construction of new properties. This is one of the proposals included in the bases of Yolanda Díaz’s political project that will be the wickers of her electoral program and that is proposed with the aim of protecting tenants from “rapid rent increases.”

Sumar’s proposals include “making variable-rate mortgages difficult” and that rental contracts be “indefinite”. Proposes to “facilitate access” to a house for illegal immigrants

In practice, the measure sponsored by Sumar – the brand with which the Vice President of the Government will attend the general elections at the end of the year – could be applied in all large cities and would affect approximately six out of 10 Spanish households according to the Law of Housing approved on Thursday in the Congress of Deputies. The justification that appears in the chapter dedicated to this matter, which he has elaborated Javier BuronBarcelona City Council Housing Manager, is that the restrictions on the purchase of flats are already being made “in some places in the European Union”, but without specifying with what result.

The aforementioned law, which is expected to come into force before the municipal and regional elections next May 28, establishes two new criteria to consider that an area is “stressed” which, moreover, are individual. In other words, it is enough that one of the two is fulfilled for the area to acquire said consideration.

On the one hand, that the average rent or mortgage charge (including basic expenses and supplies) exceeds 30% of the average household income. And, on the other, that the rental or purchase price has exceeded inflation by at least three points in the previous five years.

61.09% of Spanish households meet at least one of these two premises. Specifically, according to the consultant Atlas Real Estatewhich applies tools of data science to the real estate market, it calculates that some 2,298 postal codes would be affected by this new norm, in the 52 provinces.

If we go down to specific territories, the impact is even clearer: of the 179 geographical areas that the province of Madrid has, 59% of them would be affected, reaching a total of 2,738,121 million inhabitants, 85% of its population. In the case of Barcelona, ​​of its 198 areas, the law gives a stressed condition to 52.5%, in which 2,089,560 million inhabitants live, 80% of the total.

Outside of the large ones, practically the entire population of the Balearic Islands (95%) or Malaga (94%) would also live today in a stressed area, according to the new official criteria

In addition to the limitation on the purchase in these areas, Díaz’s team wants to increase the minimum duration of rental contracts in general -currently it is five years- and the objective is that most of them are indefinite “with exceptional causes of termination ». He also outlines the possibility of granting the right to use a home “for life” for older people.