2024-10-16 15:38:00
The Platform of those interested in mortgages interrupted the signing of the agreement shouting “Progressive government, accomplice of the rentiers”
The Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez, and the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, signed on Wednesday a protocol for the promotion of affordable rental housing for related groups to university life, like students and teachers. or research personnel.
The protocol provides for a series of measures within the competences of the three ministries – since the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business is also included in the agreement – to increase the supply of university accommodation and ensure that the new universities offer solutions housing to their students as a necessary requirement for their implementation.
Among these measures is the implementation of financing mechanisms to provide resources to public universities for housing and university housing, especially in stressed areas, making it possible to develop developments on endowment or heritage land, transferred or made available primarily by communities autonomous or city councils.
Minister Isabel Rodríguez underlined in her speech that the document signed today “constitutes a commitment to make public land available for the service of universities”.
“We will not stop until we respond to the problem that our country has today in terms of housing, a problem that today is transversal and global, but which through politics, through public action and through commitment towards citizens, we’ll solve it, deal with it.” give the response it deserves,” he stressed.
Rodríguez stressed that, in addition to speaking, they have “the responsibility to listen.” The minister argued that the protocol signed on Wednesday “arises from this government’s ability to listen”.
“Since we began to address how the rental market situation in Spain was behaving, where we have seen movements that go in a direction perhaps contrary to the defense of that public university which guarantees the social lift, considering the university and knowledge not as a social development”, he explained.
On the other hand, Minister Diana Morant underlined that “the housing crisis also affects the right to university study, a fundamental stage for individual and collective progress”. “Access to university should be limited only by people’s merit and commitment, not by economic issues or the speculative desire of those who market fundamental rights such as housing or education,” he stressed.
Morant also underlined that the Government, through the three ministries signatory to the protocol, “is working together to help solve one of the main problems suffered by many Spaniards, especially young people, caused by years of a real estate bubble and anti-interest policies.” general”.
“Today we take a step forward in the Government’s ambitious plan to guarantee decent housing for all citizens”, commented the University Minister.
During the signing of the agreement, the Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) interrupted the event by shouting “The housing law is shit” and “Progressive government, complicit with renters”, calling on the government to take other measures to resolve the increase in mortgages the cost of mortgages and rents.
A KEY AGREEMENT FOR AFFORDABLE RENTAL FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS
The president of the ICO, Manuel Illueca, underlined that “the joint work of the three Ministries is essential to promote the promotion of affordable rental housing for university groups”.
“This collaboration will help us identify the actions we need to carry out and we have the necessary resources thanks to the Recovery Plan loans to undertake them in the best conditions,” he said.
The signed protocol is part of the agreement reached by the Council of Ministers last May 9th with which the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda and the Official Credit Institute undertake to develop a new line of long-term loans of 4,000 million euros to expand the building stock intended for economic or social rental, in the framework of the addendum to the Recovery Plan, on public or private land, and for the rehabilitation of buildings, both publicly and privately owned, intended for habitual residence in a social context or affordable rental for 50 years.
In recent decades the number of universities has multiplied, increasing and diversifying the higher education offering in numerous locations across the country, not only in large cities but also in smaller towns, directly impacting the rental real estate market.
According to available data, almost 75% of our university students study in the different city in which they reside and almost 30% have to change province to study in one of the 180 university centers with in-person lessons distributed throughout our country.
In large capitals such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia or Seville, university students studying in the city constitute between 5 and 10% of the total population and in other municipalities where universities have been located, such as Villafranca de la Cañada, Cerdanyola del Vallés or Sant Vicent del Raspeig, students represent between 42 and 72% of the local population.
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