SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 8 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, has applauded the approval, by the Government of Spain, of the State Plan for Access to Housing 2022-2025 and hopes that this text “walks normally” in the General Courts when it is to validate and receive the pertinent contributions, since he considers that it is “a necessary law”.
In response to a question from deputy Manuel Marrero (Yes We Can Canary Islands), the president stressed that it is a “very important event” because it is the first housing law approved by a central government -although “not without controversy”- , specially designed to respond to a constitutional right and fundamentally for the most vulnerable.
Ángel Víctor Torres highlighted that it is a relevant progressive law that, among other things, responds to the fact that the public housing stock does not end up in the hands of investment funds; that has been done together with the autonomous communities and municipal social services, and that is also incardinated with the Pact for Decent Housing signed in the Canary Islands and with the “ambitious” Housing Plan 2020-2025.
For his part, Manuel Marrero stressed that, after four decades, Congress will take on the debate and approval of a “fundamental” law that guarantees the right to housing and that will promote the possibility of improving the Canarian law itself. of housing.
He stressed that this rule comes to face “the law of the jungle that has prevailed in the real estate and construction sector, favoring the real estate bubble, speculation and the ball.” According to Marrero, guaranteeing decent housing is essential and this law makes housing a right and not a market good.
