. Esquerra and Comuns, its two partners in the investiture bloc, abstained from their flagship plan to mobilize land from all over Catalonia, both public and private, to build 210,000 apartments by 2030. The PSC was left alone in defense of the country’s Housing Agreement, which was rejected by all the opposition and the abstention of its two partners. Members close to the Government trust that the gesture will not have consequences in the future. It was not only that: the PSC lost five votes, including approving the renewable plan before the end of 2026.
Illa once again focused her second general policy debate on housing. Access to an apartment is the main concern of Catalans, according to all surveys. A year ago, it already announced the construction of 50,000 officially protected apartments and this year it pulled the same thread with a new public-private plan to build another 210,000, especially in the second metropolitan ring. On Wednesday, he continued with the same idea with the management of 13,000 Sareb apartments. The program generated skepticism in the opposition because it lacks budgets and did not completely seduce the partners who demand immediate measures.
what was agreed in the 2025 credit supplements, which, with a value of 4,000 million euros. That item made up for the absence of budgets in the first year of Illa’s mandate. “They are very good at making advertisements but they risk their budgets on meeting the housing provisions for the supplements,” the deputy insisted.
The commons managed to get the Government to commit to presenting in November the bill for urgent measures on housing to avoid “massive fraud” in rentals by applying the seasonal rental rule. “It cannot be that the sanctions for those who commit it are zero and that there are 7,000 evictions a year,” said Cid. At the same time, the commons managed to get the Parliament to approve their demand to accelerate the construction of 50,000 apartments; rehabilitate another 150,000 apartments in seven years – it appears in the investiture agreement – and create the unit against evictions.
“Don’t ask us for more patience,” said Ester Capella, ERC spokesperson. The deputy invited the PSC deputies to vote in Congress on the proposal so that Catalonia can collect personal income tax. In any case, the Parliament approved resolutions from the ERC and the PSC in favor of this financing with ordinality and solidarity. The PP, which approved a third of its proposals, voted against.
The two partners agreed to demand that the Executive accelerate the IES, which is on the verge of being managed by a new public company and awaiting the arrival of new trains. In the previous period of sessions -in March and July-, ERC and Comuns criticized the Government for the constant breakdowns in that service. The result yesterday was different: the commons did not get the Parliament to suspend the Executive for Rodalies while ERC got the camera to denounce the grievances “in an insulting manner” Renfe and Adif subdue the passengers.
