The Government will grant 20% guarantees for the purchase of a home for young people and families with dependent minors

2023-05-07 13:16:00

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has announced this Sunday the granting of guarantees of up to 20 percent for the purchase of a first home for young people and families with dependent minors. The measure will be approved this Tuesday at the next Council of Ministers and is intended for young people up to 35 years of age and with incomes of up to 37,800 euros per year.

X-ray of the house before the new law: between the rise in rent and the pressure of mortgages

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Sánchez has defended his commitment to “put housing at the center of our priorities” and that the initiative will help those who have difficulties “to be able to get a mortgage and buy their home”, such as young people and families with minors, with the aim that each More and more people can access the purchase of decent housing.

“If during the health emergency we endorse the self-employed and companies, during the housing emergency we are going to endorse our young people and families with dependent minors who want to access a home they own”, Sánchez announced during his speech at an act electoral pre-campaign in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. “We have to put all the instruments of the state at the service of this emergency: make housing a right.”

The income limit will be doubled in the event that two members of the couple or family purchase the home together and that the age limit will not apply in the event that they have dependent minors, PSOE sources report. The aid will also have improvement factors based on the number of children and an upper income limit in the case of single-parent families.

The general secretary of the PSOE has presented this measure during his participation this Sunday in an act in Santa Cruz de Tenerife together with the candidate for re-election as president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, the candidate for re-election in the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín , and the candidate for the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Patricia Hernández.

During his speech, Sánchez once again criticized the position of the Popular Party, which from the opposition has rejected its legislative proposals of the last four years and has reproached them for the lack of proposals.

“When the right talks about housing, it talks about land for speculation and a luxury good, we want to turn it into a constitutional right and a basic necessity,” he declared.

“This is socialism”

The leader of the PSOE has reviewed how other socialist governments met with criticism of the “felipismo” that promoted public health or the pension system, the “zapaterismo” that approved the law of equal marriage or the “sanchismo” that in the last four years has pushed forward the minimum vital income or the labor reform.

“This is socialism and that is the door that makes societies advance”, Sánchez has defended. “The insults to them, we to the management and to make a positive campaign that is what they deserve and what the citizens demand of their political leaders.”

The socialist president has defended that the government’s policies show that social policies are compatible with economic growth and was sympathetic that the right is “raging” and resorts to insults, because their alternative is “cuts and precariousness”. with which they responded to the crisis in 2010.

“Being a socialist is doing and not undoing, cutting back, precariousness and inflicting social damage”, Sánchez has declared against the policies of the right, which he sees installed in “insult and disqualification” and in opposing all media that benefit the social majority.

Social measures at the gates of the campaign

The initiative to promote access to home ownership by the youngest citizens comes just a few weeks after the approval of the Housing Law, which establishes housing as a right for the first time, seeks to give a break to the cost of rents and redefines what a great landlord is. The law also comes into force at a time when the sale of houses has fallen due to the rise in interest rates, which has further maintained the pressure on rents.

Just two weeks ago, Sánchez announced the construction of 20,000 public affordable rental housing units on Ministry of Defense land which will be added to the 50,000 flats of the SAREB and the 43,000 public houses that will be financed through the ICO. The total is 113,000 more homes and its entry into the market seeks to strengthen the social housing stock. “For our young people, for families who cannot afford a flat or rent,” defended Sánchez during his speech in the Senate.

With the arrival of the regional and municipal elections on May 28, the Government has accelerated the presentation of economic measures aimed at the youngest voters. This same Saturday, Sánchez announced that the State will finance 50 percent of the cost of Interrail tickets, a 90 percent discount on trains and buses that depend on the State for trips in Spain and 50 percent on trains High speed.

This boost to travel for young people between the ages of 18 and 30 is the latest bet after the economic and social measures of the legislature, among which the increase in the minimum wage or the labor reform stand out, in addition to the new laws on education and of universities. The president, as in previous rallies, has once again boasted of this type of reform in contrast to the response of PP governments to previous crises.