The reform of the Land and Urban Rehabilitation law that the Government launched a month and a half ago is in serious danger. The coalition partners refuse to support the regulations that seek to expedite urban plans and that was a recurring demand from promoters and builders. The private sector is trying to get the PP to support the norm, but the Genoa housing area is studying a battery of amendments and even promoting another law.
On March 26, the Ministry of Housing approved the reactivation of the draft law that declined in the previous legislature due to the early calling of elections. Days later, Pedro Sánchez gathered the real estate sector in Moncloa to convey the Government’s decision to promote the reform with the aim that urban plans cannot be stopped by small, correctable errors.
But the changes in the Land Law have stumbled in Congress. The housing commission has extended the deadline for modifications three times due to the blockade of members and opposition. ERC, Junts and Podemos have registered amendments to the entirety. Sumar, for his part, complained within the Government and announced that he would seek to modify the rule.
The private sector has met with the PP to demand that it support changes to the new land law. The main opposition party does not rule it out but demands a “more flexible and ambitious” reform that provides city councils and developers with “greater security”, for which it also asks to modify the contentious-administrative jurisdiction law.
The promoters miss “measures aimed at increasing the supply of developable land to stop the current price escalation.” Specifically, they are committed to “positive administrative silence in some free housing management processes or the implementation of the promoter’s responsible declaration to speed up the development of real estate projects,” says Eduard Mendiluce, CEO of Aliseda Inmobiliaria and Anticipa Real. Estate.
The Ministry of Housing does not hide its concern about the blocking of a law that Minister Rodríguez herself defined as “an essential tool for the development of towns and cities.”
