The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, announced this Thursday in the regional Assembly the award of 1,912 new homes from the Plan Vive for affordable rentals, which the opposition calls “slow” and “insufficient.”
He has advanced it in the Plenary Session of the Regional Chamber, where he has emphasized that 944 of them will be distributed among the municipalities of Aranjuez, Navalcarnero and Villalbilla and the remaining 968 were already assigned at the beginning of the year in eight other locations. Of the first three, 400 correspond to the riverside population, 318 to Navalcarnero and 226 to Villalbilla.
These are joined by those of Arganda del Rey (223), Humanes de Madrid (50), Torrejón de la Calzada (64), Moralzarzal (82), Daganzo de Arriba (176), Velilla de San Antonio (153), Colmenar Viejo (110) and Navalcarnero (110).
The regional government has highlighted that the public-private collaboration Plan Vive aims to “increase the number of homes under lease to a price 40% lower than the market price.” “The building is carried out using the industrialized construction technique, which results in a lower environmental impact, higher quality in the execution and shorter delivery times. The investment is close to 70 million euros from Next Generation EU Funds,” have highlighted.
So far, the properties offered through Plan Vive have received more than 12,000 applications in Alcorcón, 3,500 in Tres Cantos, more than 5,000 in Alcalá de Henares and 6,200 in Getafe.
For its part, the opposition (Vox, PSOE and Más Madrid) has charged en masse against the Plan Vive, which they see as “slow”, “insufficient” and which has finally put the homes “at market price”.
The first to discredit this program has been the Vox spokesperson, Rocío Monasterio, who has disgraced him for criticizing that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, had not built any homes when “here in 2022 four were delivered.”
“Of the 25,000 that he promised in the housing legislature, he delivered 435,” continued Monasterio, who has once again demanded that he liberalize land. He believes that this measure should be taken with “everyone who is not specially protected for environmental reasons.”
For his part, his PSOE counterpart, Juan Lobato, has criticized the fact that it was announced in 2021 as an “urgent plan” and that by 2024 not even 2% of it has been built. He has insisted that Ayuso should take other measures, such as regional supplements to the youth rental bonus or an aid of 300 euros while the Plan Vive homes are being built. He has taken advantage of the plenary session to insist that the president allow tension zones to be declared by applying the Housing Law in the municipalities that have requested it, as is the case of Alcorcón, headed by the socialist Candelaria Testa.
Finally, the spokesperson for Más Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, has denied that the regional Executive’s housing policy “guarantees access” because she believes that they consider it a “business” and “not a right.”
He has criticized Plan Vive as an initiative that arrives “late and poorly” and has focused on the fact that its objective of being “affordable” has ended in “market prices.” Faced with this, it has called for mobilizing the public housing stock, putting a stop to tourist rentals and declaring stressed areas.
“Yes, even Lobato, who a year ago did not want to regulate rents, wants to now. Changing your mind is not a defeat when it improves people’s lives,” the opposition leader launched.
