The PP of Haría calls the announcement of land cession for social housing a “propagandistic patch”

The Popular Party of Haría has described the municipal government group's announcement of the transfer of public land for the construction of a dozen social housing units as "insufficient" and has considered that it is "more oriented towards a press headline than towards solving the real problem of housing access in the north."

Presenting the construction of ten social housing units as the great solution to the housing problem, as stated by the mayor Alfredo Villalba and the rest of the government group, "is a complete falsehood and a lack of respect for those who have been waiting for years to be able to build their home in their own municipality," states the local president, David Álvarez.

"We are not against social housing; we are against generating an expectation that does not respond to the magnitude of the problem. What is needed is political courage to change the rules that are not only expelling our young people from the municipality but are keeping them in their family homes with no other possible alternative," he points out.

From the local PP, they consider that the main obstacle faced by young people who wish to become independent and settle in the municipality is precisely a urban planning that is "excessively rigid and outdated, which prevents self-construction on inherited or small plots of land."

David Álvarez has been emphatic in this regard: "The biggest difficulty many residents have today is the impossibility of building their own house on land they may have inherited from their parents, because the land classification does not allow it or because they do not reach the minimum surface area required by regulations. That is the reality that most of our young people live."

The popular party maintains that requiring minimum plots of 1,000 or 1,200 square meters to build 100 or 150 square meter homes "makes no sense in the current context and does not respond to the real housing needs of the municipality," a situation that, they recall, is repeated in a good part of the towns in the north of the island.

"If the parties that make up the Municipal Government (PSOE, PMH, and NC) truly want to facilitate our young people staying in Haría, they have much more effective measures at their disposal than announcing ten social housing units," added the local president. "They can promote the modification of the General Urban Planning Plan to reduce the minimum buildable plot and adapt the regulations to the current social and economic reality."

For the PP of Haría, the modification of the General Municipal Urban Planning Plan, the reduction of the minimum plot for housing construction, the 100% bonus on the Construction, Installation, and Works Tax (ICIO), or technical support for the drafting of projects for young people and families would be "truly transformative measures with a direct impact on dozens of residents."