The president of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, announced this morning in the control session of the Parliament, "that we will propose to include in the agenda of the Conference of Presidents, an amendment to the Local Regime Law so that the city councils can make decisions that can condition access to housing by non-residents."
“We believe that the State, exercising its competence on a basic basis in matters of local regime (art. 149.1.18 of the Constitution) can enable municipalities so that within the exercise of their powers they can contribute to the solution of the housing problem that is occurring,” he added.
This will be one of the topics that the Minister of the Presidency, Public Administrations and Security, Nieves Lady Barreto, will defend tomorrow at the preparatory meeting of the Conference, which will take place in Barcelona, on June 6.
The line of work that the Government of the Canary Islands has started in the area of Housing runs parallel to the strategy before the European Union, which raises the need to make new specific considerations for the outermost regions, adapted to article 349 of the Treaty on Functioning.
Mainly, "we seek to protect social housing, fight against real estate speculation and maintain a sufficient supply of homes for long-term rental at affordable prices, among other issues," Clavijo listed.
For this, the city councils "could have tools that would allow them to establish certain requirements for the purchase of housing by non-residents, since we have seen that they alter the real estate market," he recalled.
