La CUP Challenges Salvador Illa's Housing Promises with New Public Policy Guide
La CUP criticizes President Illa’s unfulfilled housing promises and introduces a public housing guide with measures to combat speculation and promote housing as a social right.
- • La CUP presents a public housing policy guide opposing Illa's promises of 210,000 new homes.
- • Xavier Pellicer criticizes the PSC's housing strategy as ineffective and focuses on stopping real estate speculation.
- • Proposals include banning speculative land use, limiting property ownership by individuals, and restricting public-private partnerships to nonprofit projects.
- • The guide emphasizes housing as a right and municipalism as a solution against capitalist commodification.
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La CUP has presented an alternative public housing policy guide amid the ongoing residential crisis in Catalonia, directly challenging President Salvador Illa's unmet promises. At a Vilafranca del Penedès event, CUP deputy Xavier Pellicer criticized Illa's commitment to build 210,000 new homes—including 40-50% protected housing—as "empty promises," noting the government had yet to fulfill its earlier pledge of 50,000 homes.
The CUP's guide proposes immediate measures to halt real estate speculation and ensure housing is treated as a right rather than a financial product. Key proposals include banning speculative use of land, limiting the number of properties an individual can own, and restricting public-private partnerships to nonprofit projects. Pellicer warned that merely building more homes under current policies would exacerbate speculation rather than solve the crisis.
Glòria Rubio of the CUP highlighted the role of municipalism in prioritizing social needs over capitalist market forces, describing the guide as a practical toolkit for local and regional authorities to implement transformative housing policies.
This move marks a clear political challenge to the PSC’s approach, with the CUP framing Illa’s housing strategy as lacking sincerity and effectiveness while promoting a comprehensive alternative focused on social justice and housing rights.
This article was synthesized and translated from native language sources to provide English-speaking readers with local perspectives.