The growing hole between the rise in rental costs and the wage improve, the Pyric Park Public Protection Housing, and the dearth of land and financing to provide the 1000’s of models which are wanted centered on Wednesday the primary of three days of the Housing and Rehabilitation Forum (Fhar, in its acronym in Catalan) organized by the Barcelona City Council. The president of the Habitat 3 Foundation and professional in Housing Carme Trilla alerted the three points talked about and defended the regulation of rental costs, however concerted with the homeowners. “With a payment guarantee system [por parte de la administración] Before insolvencies, in exchange for lowering or controlling prices and not withdrawing floors from the market, “he defended and argued.” If we want to have affordable rental with owners willing to enter [en el mercado]it cannot be slippery, because the idea is extended that it is not a good business or a bet of the future, and is an attack on having a rental park, ”he said.
Trilla, who also presides over the Metropolitan Observatory of the Housing of Barcelona, and has worked in the public, private and entities sector, had already pointed out this recipe, to enable aid to the owners before the insolvencies, since before applying the control of income. After a year of validity of the regulation in Catalonia, prices have fallen slightly, but the contracts have also collapsed and the seasonal rentals gain weight, with which the landlords dodge the legislation. In Barcelona, short stay contracts are already 26% of the new contracts.
On one of the tables, entitled The future of housing, inequalities in access to purchase and rental housingTrilla regretted that by designing housing policies “we confuse the implications with the causes.” “We should suppose extra concerning the causes that lead us to conditions.” And he placed several: the gap between salaries and prices, the demographic pressure in which they gain vulnerable collective weight such as migrants, the clash between demand and supply after the paralysis that followed the burst of the brick, and the difficulty and slowness of implementing the production machinery. Among his Trilla recipes he also opted for “stability within the financing of public housing” such as the one that existed at other times, or the operators of the third sector, both of construction and management, common in Europe.
The lack of financing to increase public park
The lack of financing was another recurring issues at the tables. Economist Agustí Jover, at the inaugural diagnosis conference on the protected housing park in Catalonia, opted “for a safety framework the place the contribution of private and non-private assets is agreed in a really lengthy -term framework.” “The 50,000 flooring can’t be made with 1.5 billion euros, far more is critical,” and warned the need to “rearm the Generalitat as an executor, as a result of past non-public operators, nobody can think about that the promotion is assumed by the municipalities”, to whom he exceeds both the investment and the construction and management of a public park called to grow. He also pointed out that the partition of public banking (ICF or ICO) is positive, but requested that the interlocutor with the promoters be the entities with which they already work and know each company and their circumstances.
On the part of the construction guild, its president, Josep Antoni Martínez, in addition to requesting financing to build, urged to generate soil available to build, improvements in the taxation and streamlining of the procedures to have licenses. “We are very involved concerning the era of land, the financial sustainability of financing, which takes us to obtain licenses and really excessive taxation all through the method: the non-public ones are usually not transatlantic akin to administrations,” he warned.
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