These elections will address several issues: one of them, access to housing. With the price of rents in Barcelona skyrocketing, the new law that limits the rents of new contracts has sparked opinions across the political spectrum. Parties like ERC, PSC and Comuns are in favor, while Junts, PP and Vox abhor it. The CUP sees it as insufficient.
We break down the electoral programs of each candidate for the Catalan elections of May 12 and, specifically, their proposals on housing. They are ordered by their current number of seats in the Parliament after the 2021 elections.
Ciutadans (C’s) proposes Carlos Carrizosa and intends to keep its seats in the Parliament, after losing all its seats in Congress in the last general elections in 2023. Regarding housing, its intention is to attract “social investors”, allocate 1,000 million euros for the construction of social housing, and eliminate taxes on property transfers and documented legal acts.
The Partit Popular de Catalunya (PP) has not published any detailed electoral program to date. It is presented with “10 axes” to be addressed, among which the “eviction of squatters in 24 hours”, the “elimination of the Inheritance and Donation Tax” and the “100% exemption from the ITP for the purchase of housing for minors” stand out. 35 years old.”
Aliança Catalana, the party led by the current mayor of Ripoll, is presented to Parliament for the first time. In his program, he promises to overturn the housing law, provide “facilities for investors who want to buy or renovate apartments to put them on the rental market” and eliminate the property transfer tax (ITP) on the purchase of the first home and reduce it in the rest of the cases, according to your electoral program.
