10 Sep, 2020 @ 17:38
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Catalan bill to bring in rent controls slammed as ‘unconstitutional’

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A BILL to control rents has been dubbed ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ by a property owners’ pressure group.

ASVAL, the Association of Owners of Homes for Rent, is strongly opposed to the bill which is to be voted on in the Catalan parliament.

The association says that it ‘infringes the right to private property and will encourage the underground economy in the rental market’.

It warns that more property owners will operate outside the law, leading to a lower tax take and hitting people on low incomes, particularly youngsters, who will find themselves without legal protection.

Instead of price controls it wants to see public/private initiatives to build a pool of social housing to be let out at below market prices.

In a statement the organisation said: “A public social housing policy is needed to solve the situation of the population at risk of exclusion.

“During the last 10 years, Spain has allocated only 0.05% of its GDP to housing policies, causing a shortage of social housing: the stock of social housing in Spain is only 1.5% compared to the 15% average in the European Union.”

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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