Óscar López, Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Services, joked on his X account about the proposal of President Alberto Nuñez Feijo of the Popular Party to create a first vice president specializing in housing if he comes to power. “If Abascal was running Housing today like Feijaw wanted.”tweeted the minister. Accompanying the message is a plaque from the former National Housing Authority (INV.). franco dictatorship.
In this way, the Minister said that if the PP governs with the support of Vox and its leaders; santiago Abascal, I was in charge of housing.Ministry It will be like the Franco regime again..
Government President Pedro Sánchez joined the comments that arose after Mr. Feijo’s promise when he appeared in Congress, asking sarcastically of the PP party leader who plans to give him the vice-presidency: To Mrs. Ana Botella?
The chief executive then warned Feijoo that perhaps the vice presidency would eventually become his as he maintained the status of “co-pilot.” Sanchez also took advantage of this opportunity. throw darts at PP: “If it gets made, it’ll be for you (alluding to Feijo) because Vox is already ahead of you in the polls.”
Franco’s housing policy
Some politicians, including the former mayor of Madrid Manuela Carmenahas expressed a favorable opinion of President Franco’s housing policy. The former mayor positively evaluated some aspects of these measures during his intervention in the program lawyers and companies It was held in May of this year. “Let me tell you, Franco has been very protective of his tenants.”Carmena explained that under Franco’s regime, “rental income was completely frozen because we knew there was no housing.”
“We want a Spain of owners, not a Spain of the proletariat.” These words were said. José Luis Arece, the first Minister of Housing in Spain’s historyin a speech before the Francoist Cortes. With this phrase, Arese successfully summarized one of the Franco regime’s ideological objectives regarding housing. promote private property as a means of social control. Among other things, dictatorships understood that owners were less prone to social protest and trade union organizing than the propertyless proletariat. The administration also sought to resolve the housing crisis that arose after the Civil War.
Public protected housing (VPO) was one of the pillars of the Franco regime’s housing policy, especially since the 1940s.Its goal was to address shortages and provide affordable solutions to the working class.. These houses were built with subsidies and public financing and were regulated by the National Housing Institute (INV), which was established in 1939.
The Limited Income Housing Act of 1954 was another important part of the Franco regime’s housing policy. Promote private construction of affordable apartments without completely relinquishing state control. Income-restricted housing was housing that was built on private initiative, but whose conditions were imposed by the state. For example, maximum rental (or sales) prices, minimum dimensions and characteristics were regulated, and a period (usually between 10 and 25 years) was established within which this protection regime must be respected. In return, builders received a series of tax benefits, deductions, and administrative facilities.