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- Miguel Angel Alzamora considers "inconceivable that in the XXI century a municipality like Murcia does not have an effective housing policy"
NOW MURCIA is going to present to the Ombudsman cases of families in the municipality with minors who are going to be evicted and to whom neither the City Council nor the Autonomous Community are offered a housing alternative.
The writing of Now Murcia will include, in addition, the violation of the rights of the councilors when receiving the Consistory much of the information on housing that the municipal training requests.
The mayor Miguel Angel Alzamora has given this information this morning in the course of a press conference on access to housing in the municipality of Murcia.
Alzamora said that "the problem of access to housing in our town is very serious and is causing major difficulties to many of our neighbors."
The councilman has identified as causes the progressive decrease in wages and the increase and stabilization of poverty, to which is added the lack of affordable rental offer, the increase in rental prices and the practically nonexistent municipal housing policy.
As stressed by the mayor, the evictions and difficulties in accessing decent housing "increasingly have the face of a woman, that is, the problem of housing is feminizing", in addition to the municipality there are "17,285 monomarental families with minors. "
The figures on access to housing in the municipality and the Region leave no doubt: the average price of rental housing has increased by 12% in the last year and by 25% in the last 5 years in the municipality of Murcia, becoming the main expense for many families, while evictions for rent have increased in the first quarter of 2018 by 38.2%.
In addition, as the PAH has warned some 50,000 foreclosures are paralyzed by order of the Superior Court of Justice, a situation that could change in the coming weeks when the Court of Justice of the European Union decides.
"All this has generated a rent bubble," said Alzamora, "which could help the Regional Housing Law 10/2016, which for the lack of responsibility of the Regional Government (PP) is not being applied, when in it there are measures, among other things, to reduce the effects of evictions. "
The councilman of Now Murcia has highlighted "the enormous responsibility of the City of Murcia in these serious housing problems in the municipality, as it has many powers to act but does virtually nothing."
Thus, "the municipal Housing Service, which has decreased its funding this year, is collapsed with more than a thousand social housing demands unattended each year."
In addition, as Alzamora pointed out, "the 'star' programs of the Murcia City Council continue to have virtually no impact on the population in need of housing, for example, the 'Murcia Alquila' program has only had 5 tenants, and the Housing Service is deriving families from the municipality about to be evicted from NGOs, when they can not solve the problem. "
The mayor has underlined the fact that "Murcia is the seventh city in Spain, but it is the only one of them that does not have a Municipal Housing Plan, something that is inadmissible and that needs to be resolved. the fair booths in the house for people. "
Proposals of Now Murcia
Miguel Angel Alzamora has stressed the need to "urgently create a Municipal Housing Board, calling on all social agents related to this matter, to make them part of the design of a Municipal Housing Plan."
Before that Plan, it would be necessary to carry out, "and urgently, a diagnosis of the supply, demand and housing needs of the municipality, an essential diagnostic to access the available aid from the European Union and the Government of Spain".
In addition, the councilman of Now Murcia has indicated that "the City must evaluate the municipal land that has and use it for this future Municipal Housing Plan, so that you can design the necessary measures and that are already working in other municipalities, such such as the promotion of housing and / or public accommodation for rent under the regime of use-sharing cooperatives and other possible formulas, which take advantage of regional, state and European aid, the placing on the market of empty houses, the purchase of empty homes for social rental programs or home exchange programs for families with special needs, among others. "
For Alzamora, "in the longer term, it would be convenient to reinstate the Department of Housing, since the dimensions and importance of the problem require it." It is up to the administrations, also the municipal ones, to enforce the right that all people have to housing and the city. "
Source: Ahora Murcia
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