The Secretary General of Podemos, Ione Belarra, has claimed this Saturday to prohibit “any housing purchase in Spain that is not to reside”, after calling to intervene this market “bluntly”.
He has done it in Malaga, “hot spot of real estate speculation in our country for decades”, where he has remarked that “the very housing prices are not a meteorological phenomenon”, but “the consequence of decisions made” by “bipartisanship”, Popular Party and PSOE.
He has accused both formations of carrying “breaking the Constitution for decades”, referring to article 47 that affirms that all Spaniards “have the right to have decent housing.” Despite assessing the Housing Law of Spain, it has stressed that it “is breaking the constitution openly already knowing”, and has rang in this sense that the PSOE has presented “a reform of the land law that is traced” to the “that promoted in 2018” the PP.
Given the political inaction of “bipartisanship” to solve the housing problem, according to Belarra, he has argued that it is justified for two reasons: for the aspiration “to finish their political careers sitting in a board of directors or in a real estate employer or, without a doubt, in a very well paid setting for not having done anything when they could do it”, and because “it is very difficult to face those economic interests.”
In this last point, Belarra has hinted that capitalism “always takes out the most reactionary sectors when they cannot control the crisis generated by their own system”, and has thus referred to the “neo -Nazis commands” of Desokupa, that “they should be illegalized in this country, and that however they are allowed to be a punch.”
In allusion to this controversial organization, he said that, “as Irene Montero defended, they defend that vulnerable people are taken from their homes and we defend that if you have nowhere to put your sons and your daughters, you hit a kick at the door of a bank, of course. Because the floors do not have to be empty, because the houses are to live, not for them to be empty.”
Belarra, who has urged to intervene the housing market, has claimed the work of Podemos for promoting “for the first time in the history of this country a housing law that allows the regulation of rental prices”, and has indicated that “where it applies works and is allowed to regulate” these prices.
“The problem is that this housing law was designed for 2020, not for 2025”the leader has continued, who has criticized the PSOE for “allowing rentism and speculation to be champion at ease throughout the legislature.”
Therefore, he has defended “prohibit any purchase of housing in Spain that is not to reside.” “If a house is not for a working family to live in it, what is it for? To speculate. To make it a tourist floor. To have it empty and sell it more expensive in a few years. That is why they are not the houses. And that has to be banned with perfect constitutional arrangement,” he added.
The purple leader has considered it essential “to lower rental prices by law.” It can be done. Do you know why I know? Because we already did it in Pandemia. Because we freeze the rental prices with the Royal Social Shield Decree that we write ourselves. Therefore, when you want to intervene the housing market, you can. And it is perfectly constitutional. The problem is that they do not want to do it, “Belarra has recriminated.
He has insisted that, in Spain, practically “50%” of the housing that are bought are “to Tocateja”, a percentage that ascends in Malaga to “60%”. “When you buy a house to Tocateja, without a mortgage, it means that you are not a working family. It means that you are a vulture fund that is speculating with the house and that is why we have to ban,” he said.