The Forum proposes to the Government to create a public housing portfolio of 40,000 homes by 2040.
The entity has submitted a document with a hundred proposals to the Minister of Housing.
PalmThe Civil Society Forum has proposed that the Catalan government create a public housing portfolio of 40,000 homes by 2040, implement various policies to contain rental prices, and continue limiting tourist housing.
These are some of the proposals included in the final document emerging from the Second Civil Society Congress, held a few weeks ago in Palma and focusing on housing. This was presented this Monday to the Regional Minister of Housing, Territory, and Mobility, José Luis Mateo.
This meeting took place during an institutional meeting held at the headquarters of the Regional Ministry, also attended by the Director General of Housing and Architecture, José Francisco Reynés. The Forum was represented by its president, Josep Benedicto, and the members of the executive committee, David Abril and Jaume Garau.
The document, the Forum reported in a statement, contains more than 100 proposals grouped into five major thematic blocks: housing and land availability, social emergency, de-commodification, governance and taxation, and enabling measures.
These include the possibility of creating a public housing stock of 40,000 homes by 2040, the implementation of policies to contain rental prices, and the limitation of tourist rentals, among others. Also included is the halting of evictions for those affected without alternative housing, the de-commodification of housing through the creation of cooperatives and non-profit models, the promotion of taxation that penalizes speculation, and the activation of mechanisms to mobilize vacant housing, among others.
During the meeting, the Forum representatives expressed their desire to foster a broad social and institutional pact to implement these measures and urged the regional minister to consider them as a "solid foundation for future public policies."