The housing situation in the capital of Vallès Occidental has gone beyond mere statistics, affecting young people who cannot become independent and families who spend almost half their salary on rent. The cruelest symptom of this problem is the increase in homeless people, who sleep on the street or in vehicles, even while maintaining employment.
This reality is presented as the result of a model applied during decades of left-wing governments in Sabadell, Catalonia, and Spain, based on intervention, prohibition, and punishing the owner. This has led to a decrease in the supply of rental flats and widespread fear among owners, who withdraw housing from the market.
The problem is aggravated by illegal occupation, which has become a factor eroding coexistence in neighborhoods such as Can Puiggener, Ca n’Oriac, Torre-romeu, or Campoamor, where residents report occupied buildings and illegal utility hookups.
Housing is not solved with more intervention, but with more supply and more legal security.
Faced with this scenario, the Partido Popular (PP) proposes a change of direction based on Alberto Núñez Feijóo's Housing Plan. This plan focuses on mobilizing public land to build affordable housing, facilitating licenses, rehabilitating empty flats, reducing taxes such as VAT on the first home, and guaranteeing an anti-occupation law that protects owners.
The main objective of the PP is to initiate the construction of one million homes during the next legislature, seeking to offer real and tangible solutions against what they consider “infinite plans” and “propaganda.”
