Prohens rejects the royal housing decrees arguing that they harm "small property owners"

PalmaFirst reaction from President Marga Prohens to the royal decree-laws that the Spanish government approved this Tuesday to address the housing crisis. The Popular Party member has completely rejected the initiatives, which seek to protect tenants and avoid housing speculation, arguing that they "load" the housing crisis "onto the backs of small property owners".

Prohens has also criticized that the Spanish government has negotiated against the clock to approve these two decree laws to solve a problem that "it has not been able to solve in eight years." Thus, she has rejected the initiatives because "they do not go to the root of the problem." "In the last 20 years, the population of the Islands has grown by practically 50%, while the construction of housing has increased by less than 30%: there is a problem of supply and demand and of prices," she argued.

Regarding the measures that have been made known, Prohens referred to the compensation of 12 monthly payments that the owner will have to pay if they do not renew the contract with the tenant, and she expressed that this could harm the owners. "Even if they want to entertain us with their vulture funds, in the Islands 96% are small owners, families who with their effort have been able to have a home, or two or more," she assured.

For all this, she warned that the Spanish government's measures could lead to a reduction in supply or even the eviction of people from their rental apartments. "It is the greatest irresponsibility that the PSOE and the government of Spain have committed."