Prohens attacks Unides Podem over housing: "Property is defended and squatters are removed"

Palm"Private property is defended, and squatters are removed within 24 hours." This is how the president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, responded to a parliamentary question from Unides Podem about the social function of housing. In the same vein, she accused the purple deputy José María García of wanting to equate "doing social housing policy with protecting criminals, defending occupation, and placing social responsibility on the shoulders of property owners".

The president reacted this way to García's criticisms, who reproached the president for not having taken measures to curb speculation and lower housing prices. "They do more to blame those looking for a way to have a roof over their heads than to find them a housing alternative," he criticized. He also questioned the effectiveness of some measures promoted by the PP with the support of Vox to combat housing access difficulties, such as the creation of the anti-squatting office or the prohibition for individuals convicted of housing usurpation to access a protected apartment.

Prohens, to Cañadas: "Clarify what the national priority is"

Prohens has clashed again with Vox this Tuesday over the national priority clause. The spokesperson for the far-right group, Manuela Cañadas, has once again reproached her for calling it a "populist" proposal. Thus, she mentioned the requirement of a minimum of five years of residence to access public housing or three years to opt for the Guaranteed Social Income (Resoga), insisting that this is already a measure that puts national priority on the table.

After Prohens accused Cañadas of giving "three or four different versions" on what national priority is and asked him to clarify, the Vox spokeswoman asked him: "When there is an economic problem in your house, do you share the money among your own or the neighbors who have just arrived?". "The answer is obvious, and that is Vox's national priority," she continued. She also gave a practical example: "Pau is thirty years old, he is from Mallorca, he works, he contributes, he pays 500 euros for a room and is on the waiting list to access public housing, but a foreigner with five years of legal residence and a profile of greater vulnerability gets ahead of him, and he is left behind." "With Vox's national priority, Pau is first," she stated.

"You will allow me to start with a joke," Prohens replied: "Populism is that, with your toponym regulation, Pau would not be Pau, but Pablo." After defending that, to access benefits, "roots and legal residence should be taken into account" so that they reach "the local people", she accused Vox of changing what they understand by national priority. "First they said that aid would only be for Spaniards by birth; then, for those who have nationality, and now they have enough with the requirement of a minimum legal residence, which is what this Government already applies," she concluded.