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Rentals: Tenants demand Senate to freeze rental prices 6 months - Infobae
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September 07, 2023
By: Jose Luis Cieri
The National Tenants Movement will attend the Upper House today. It also calls for a comprehensive strategy that seeks to resolve the housing deficit
The current Rental Law is still in force but under review in the national Senate. Groups of tenants will request that prices be frozen for 6 months (Photo: Getty Images)
The senators will receive today different groups and organizations that represent tenants from all over the country to hear their opinions on the Rental Law that is under review after Deputies approved the medium sanction to return to two-year contracts instead of three and semi-annual and up to four-monthly adjustments instead of the interannual ones that are governed by the Leasing Contract Index (ICL).
Today there are 3 million tenant homes, 34% more than in 2016, according to data provided by Federico González Rouco , economist and author of the book Owners or Tenants . In addition, the housing deficit worsens. They will also seek to address the tenants because they consider it vital to balance the demand with a housing plan that allows access to their own roof.
Tenant groups maintain that as long as there is no political will to understand and defend housing as a right and control and sanction tools are not generated, the panorama will continue to be complex.
“From the National Tenant Movement, we notice that everything continues to be reduced to the Rental Law, which was not even complied with. We must urgently declare a housing emergency and call for a 6-month freeze on real estate rental prices, as is happening with public services," Diego Fernández Camillo, from the Platense Tenants Association, told Infobae.
The associations argue that the problem must be faced honestly and take care of more than a decade lost for Argentines in terms of housing.
Rental prices are increasingly higher and complicate the economy of tenants in Argentina (Photo: Getty Images)
In the last 12 years the number of tenants has grown a lot . Fernández Camillo said: "The numbers confirm a growing number of families without their own roof, which goes from 10.9% of the renting population in the 2010 Census, to almost 21% in 2022. But we should be more concerned when the owners become dropped from 73% to almost 65%. And in the last 10 years almost 580,000 properties were built. Clearly, construction is not the solution.”
It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 million empty homes across the country.
“We propose that a consultation meeting be called and a National Rental Secretariat be formed, with the corresponding State actors, chambers of owners and tenant organizations. The law speaks of Social Rentals”, said Fernández Camillo.
Natalia Ranzuglia , from Inquilinxs Tres de Febrero Network of Buenos Aires tenants, commented to Infobae that "the project that obtained an opinion in Deputies endangers the stability of those who rent (by shortening lease terms, deregulating adjustments and significantly increasing the amount that can be done during the contract) and once again leaves us unprotected in a tremendous economic situation”.
The tenants understand that modifying the articles of the regulations will be difficult.
Maximiliano Vittar Lucero , from the Córdoba Tenants Association, assured: “reforming the law is counterproductive. There are informal contracts and illegal extensions, we run the risk that the owners ask to advance payments. The duration of short contracts could be extended, in the case of tourism, which threatens the supply of units for traditional rental. It is necessary to generate greater control by the State to enforce any legal system and advance in a correct public housing policy”.
“We must recognize the housing crisis, which predates the enactment of this law, and declare an emergency, freeze prices, suspend evictions, and create a dialogue table where we can seriously consider a way out,” Ranzuglia concluded.
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September 07, 2023
By: Jose Luis Cieri
The National Tenants Movement will attend the Upper House today. It also calls for a comprehensive strategy that seeks to resolve the housing deficit
The current Rental Law is still in force but under review in the national Senate. Groups of tenants will request that prices be frozen for 6 months (Photo: Getty Images)
The senators will receive today different groups and organizations that represent tenants from all over the country to hear their opinions on the Rental Law that is under review after Deputies approved the medium sanction to return to two-year contracts instead of three and semi-annual and up to four-monthly adjustments instead of the interannual ones that are governed by the Leasing Contract Index (ICL).
Today there are 3 million tenant homes, 34% more than in 2016, according to data provided by Federico González Rouco , economist and author of the book Owners or Tenants . In addition, the housing deficit worsens. They will also seek to address the tenants because they consider it vital to balance the demand with a housing plan that allows access to their own roof.
Tenant groups maintain that as long as there is no political will to understand and defend housing as a right and control and sanction tools are not generated, the panorama will continue to be complex.
“From the National Tenant Movement, we notice that everything continues to be reduced to the Rental Law, which was not even complied with. We must urgently declare a housing emergency and call for a 6-month freeze on real estate rental prices, as is happening with public services," Diego Fernández Camillo, from the Platense Tenants Association, told Infobae.
The associations argue that the problem must be faced honestly and take care of more than a decade lost for Argentines in terms of housing.
Rental prices are increasingly higher and complicate the economy of tenants in Argentina (Photo: Getty Images)
In the last 12 years the number of tenants has grown a lot . Fernández Camillo said: "The numbers confirm a growing number of families without their own roof, which goes from 10.9% of the renting population in the 2010 Census, to almost 21% in 2022. But we should be more concerned when the owners become dropped from 73% to almost 65%. And in the last 10 years almost 580,000 properties were built. Clearly, construction is not the solution.”
It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 million empty homes across the country.
“We propose that a consultation meeting be called and a National Rental Secretariat be formed, with the corresponding State actors, chambers of owners and tenant organizations. The law speaks of Social Rentals”, said Fernández Camillo.
Avoid increases every 4 months
Different entities maintain that returning to two years of contracts and adjustments every four months would further complicate the economy of those who do not have their own roof.Natalia Ranzuglia , from Inquilinxs Tres de Febrero Network of Buenos Aires tenants, commented to Infobae that "the project that obtained an opinion in Deputies endangers the stability of those who rent (by shortening lease terms, deregulating adjustments and significantly increasing the amount that can be done during the contract) and once again leaves us unprotected in a tremendous economic situation”.
The tenants understand that modifying the articles of the regulations will be difficult.
Maximiliano Vittar Lucero , from the Córdoba Tenants Association, assured: “reforming the law is counterproductive. There are informal contracts and illegal extensions, we run the risk that the owners ask to advance payments. The duration of short contracts could be extended, in the case of tourism, which threatens the supply of units for traditional rental. It is necessary to generate greater control by the State to enforce any legal system and advance in a correct public housing policy”.
“We must recognize the housing crisis, which predates the enactment of this law, and declare an emergency, freeze prices, suspend evictions, and create a dialogue table where we can seriously consider a way out,” Ranzuglia concluded.
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