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Carlos Mazón: "185 municipalities have already joined the Living Plan to provide an effective solution to thousands of people looking for housing"

 

 

• To date, 42 municipalities in the province of Alicante, 56 in Castellón and 87 in Valencia have been added, covering 64% of the population of the Valencian Community

• Highlights the "Government's response to coordinate with the municipalities a common front that urgently provides access to housing for thousands of people from Valencia, Alicante and Castellón"

• Remember that the Living Plan is promoting 10,000 public protection homes that will benefit 24,600 people

• He points out that the housing legislature is moving forward with 360° measures such as tax reductions, IVF guarantees for access to credit for young people, rent incentives or administrative simplification to speed up projects

The president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, has emphasized that "the housing legislation is progressing at a good pace and only in the first four months since the Living Plan was presented, 185 municipalities in the Community have already joined this program Valencian".

Specifically, 42 municipalities in the province of Alicante, 56 in Castellón and 87 in Valencia have already joined this initiative. For Carlos Mazón, the Living Plan is an "ambitious project to face the challenge of the real estate market that we take on with responsibility and determination in which all the municipalities of the Valencian Community have a place".

Thus, large cities such as Valencia, Alicante, Elche, Castelló de la Plana, Torrevieja, Orihuela, Torrent, Benidorm, Vila-real or Alzira have already joined the Living Plan, or small municipalities such as Sempere, Espadilla, Villanueva de Viver, Herbers, Matet or Ares del Maestrat, among others.

"These accessions imply that there are already more than 3.3 million people under the radius of action of this plan, who represent 64% of the population of the Valencian Community", explained the head of the Council, who has grateful for the commitment of the municipalities "to address one of the great problems of our society which, finally, after years in oblivion, has a serious, coherent and rigorous plan to promote 10,000 public protection housing during this legislature ".

On this subject, the president stressed that housing is a common problem that affects all towns and cities, and that it requires a common front to "facilitate citizens' access to an affordable residential resource so that they can develop their plan of life".

Along these lines, the highest representative of the Valencian executive has indicated that "we cannot waste a single minute" and has pointed out that "Generalitat, FVMP, councils and the private sector are addressing the procedures to start the construction of homes throughout the entire Valencian Community".

In fact, many of the municipalities have already offered land to the Valencian Housing and Land Authority (EVHA) which is in the phase of studying the technical and economic feasibility of the actions. Likewise, the bidding process for the land rights competition for the promotion, construction and management of 720 public protection homes on 13 plots distributed in eight municipalities has started.

Specifically, the housing plan promoted by the Council will benefit 24,600 people, generate 7,326 million euros of investment and have an impact of 2% of our GDP in the next 3 and a half years. In addition, it foresees the creation of 74,000 direct and indirect jobs and will generate 487 million euros in direct revenue (VAT).

For this reason, Mazón has explained that "the Living Plan will not only allow access to housing for thousands of families, it will also stimulate employment in many subsectors linked to construction".

Axis of the Living Plan
The Living Plan is structured around 3 axes: legal security, administrative cooperation and public-private collaboration. In the first axis, legislative initiatives that have already been launched are framed, such as the modification of the decree on design and quality standards in housing buildings and the reform approving the public protection housing regulation and legal regime of the public housing and land heritage of the Generalitat, among others.

In the axis of inter-administrative collaboration, in addition to the agreement with the FVMP, a study has already been carried out through the Valencian Institute for the Construction of available public land owned by the town councils of more than 10,000 inhabitants. In addition, the land owned by the Generalitat through the Valencian Housing and Land Authority (EVHA) will be made available to Plan Viu.

In the axis of public-private collaboration, the Plan envisages the competition for surface rights or administrative concession intended for the private sector to develop promotions for affordable rent for a given period. Land/property swaps are also foreseen which allow tenders for the promotion of protected housing on public land and the delivery of housing to the Administration for social purposes, among others.

Measures 360 degrees
Carlos Mazón has pointed out that the Council's housing policy foresees a 360-degree plan that ranges from construction, tax rebates, rental incentives or a guarantee program because "we want all people who want a house to have facilities to get - her".

Along these lines, he also highlighted the administrative simplification measures to speed up bureaucratic procedures that allow "projects such as the construction of houses or obtaining licenses to progress more quickly and do not entail any delay in matters as important as housing, and in this way they give security to both the employer and the citizen".

The head of the Council has recalled the fiscal measures put in place to facilitate access to housing with the reduction of 25% of the property transfer tax (ITP). Thus, the ITP has been reduced to 6% for those under 35, the most vulnerable groups and buyers of public housing under the general regime. In both cases with a home value of up to 180,000 euros.

On the other hand, for the acquisition of housing with special official protection or if the buyers are large families and single-parent families or people with disabilities and women subject to gender violence who acquire a home, the super-reduced rate becomes of 3%. Also in these cases the limit of the value of the house is fixed at 180,000 euros.

On the other hand, the guarantee program of the Institut Valencià de Finances (IVF) has been launched, which facilitates access to credit for young people up to 45 years old for the acquisition of their first property. This plan, endowed with 20 million euros, allows the buyer to obtain a loan of up to 95% of the price of the house.

Likewise, the Generalitat has extended the Bo Jove 2023-2024 by 6 million euros, which will increase by 2,000 more beneficiaries and reach 6,000 beneficiaries.