Fernández expressed himself in this way after the director of Casa 47, Leire Iglesias, reported that the state housing company plans to create around 200 affordable rental homes in municipalities affected by the DANA in the province of Valencia. This initiative will be carried out through a call for 22.8 million euros to build these flats, thanks to the transfer of municipal land by local councils.
The call will prioritize localities with greater residential tension. Once built, the flats will be allocated for affordable rent, with a price that allows tenants not to have to allocate more than 30 percent of their salaries.
“"Empty and trailing announcements further expose a Government that has never cared about this land, much less in the hardest times."
Fernández has criticized the institutional disloyalty, and above all, to citizens, of a Sánchez Government that refused to collaborate with the Generalitat to make housing available to those affected by the DANA. He highlighted that, in contrast to political tactics, the Generalitat acts with facts, as it is already executing the Plan Vive DANA, which foresees 250 homes in a first phase.
Of these, 100 are already underway —35 awarded in Utiel and 63 tendered in Utiel and Albal— with an investment of 21.7 million euros from the Generalitat's own funds. These homes are progressing within the framework of a plan to which 60 municipalities of all political colors have adhered, a realistic and innovative plan that allows the use of endowment land for housing.
The regional secretary has denounced that the Government of Spain has not collaborated at any time with the Generalitat, acting unilaterally and without coordination with the policies already underway in the Valencian Community. He specified that it has not ceded Sareb homes, generating uncertainty in the midst of a housing emergency and reacting late to an urgent situation.
For Fernández, it is at least surprising that, far from joining forces to seek solutions, the Government only continues in a war of headlines and political tactics, without any intention of collaborating to provide an agile and coordinated response to housing needs in the affected municipalities. He added that this is the modus operandi of the Sánchez Government, which, in addition to despising those affected by the DANA, has kept strategic land paralyzed, such as that of the former Engineers' Barracks in Valencia, where more than 400 homes could have been developed.
